182409 - [INSTALLER] Mozilla Firebird needs an installer on non-windows operating systems

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 225175

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Bryan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021127
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021127

Hi,
I wolud like to see phoenix in a .exe file rather then a .zip file so I can
start testing it again.(I am having problems zipping and using zip files on my
computer I can figuer out what I did)And i would like to start testing phoenix
again.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.N.A.



Actual Results:  
Does not matter.

Expected Results:  
N.A.

Also is that possible.

Comment 1

[Bryan]

I can not figure out what I did.(I can figuer out what I did)

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

http://seb.delahaye.net/phoenix/#download is what you are looking for.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is a request for a Phoenix installer. Is it a dupe?

Comment 4

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Asa, I couldn't find a dupe for this.
I think I saw somewhere (in the readme, or in one of the early docs about
phoenix, I guess) that this was planned, but I can't find it again.

Comment 5

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Confirming and changing summary. Original summary was "To have phoenix in a.exe
file rather than a .zip file."

Feel free to WONTFIX if an installer is not planned.

Comment 6

[Andrew Self]

I know that build size is important for Phoenix, so under Windows at least, what
about the Nullsoft Installer?  It's small, free, and would do everything that we
need under Windows (create Add/Remove entry, make folder on drive, make icons on
Start menu).

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 185102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[blitzreiter]

 Bug 185102 is not exactly the same. It is also a request for some information
on the install and config files. what is where installed. For manually deleting
of phoenix

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 185102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

*** Bug 196758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 198508 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 203695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Andrew Hagen]

You can just make it an executable ZIP file. Ultimate Zip has "Make EXE file"
available under its "Actions" menu. I tested it on Phoenix 0.5. It installs just
fine. 

http://www.ultimatezip.com/

Comment 14

[Jonathan Thurlow]

What about the installer available at http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/

Comment 15

[louis bennett]

if the organization is pushing mozilla firebird to end users, this feature is
very attractive.

specifically, i recommended firebird to a friend, and she said it "didn't work."
what actually happened was that she didn't know how to use winzip. in the
interest of reducing the number of factors that complicate the adoption process,
i see this task as very important.

as a short-term solution for windows, could we provide a version of the zipped
file as an .exe, which winzip can do?

see also:

http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/

Comment 16

[Albert R.]

Does anyone want to suggest a target milestone for this?  I would think that
Firebird 0.8 would be a realistic goal, and provides enough time to fix any
niggling little issues.

Comment 17

[Brad Fults]

I strongly advise that if an installer is indeed implemented that it only be in
parallel with the zipped version. I personally despise installers and am
extremely happy with the current zipped bundle.

Comment 18

[David Hallowell]

Of course there'd be no need to get rid of the zipped builds, some people say
Firebird's advantage over Seamonkey (Mozilla app suite) is the lack of an
installer. However, the app suite has always had the choice of the installer and
the zipped builds. So don't worry about the zip file going away, however, when
Firebird and Thunderbird start using the GRE to share common libraries, you'll
need to use the installer to take advantage of it.

Comment 19

[Jon Henry]

Should this be marked as a dupe of bug 214263? Also, what's wrong with the
installer used in the SeaMonkey builds? Obviously I don't understand its inner
workings, but it seems to me it shouldn't be too impossible to simply modify it
to support Firebird's necessary files and registry settings rather than the suite's.

Comment 20

[Sébastien Delahaye]

wellander3, please don't remove people from bugs.

Comment 21

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

don't need two installer bugs...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214263 ***

Comment 22

[Robert Mohr]

All the other installer bugs were marked as dupes of this.  Why should bug
214263 be any different?

Comment 23

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

simply put, that bug is the tracker assigned to the dev speccing and
implementing the installer.  This bug has no real status, and is full of noise
already, so it serves little purpose to try to track development in a bug that's
at 22 comments without any concrete information.

Comment 24

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Adjusting summary in anticipation of a possible fix for bug 224989 and to make
finding installer bugs easier. Also taking QA Contact.

Comment 25

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug was duped against a bug which was aiming for a windows installer. Since
we also support platforms and operating systems other than windows (Linux, OS/2,
Solaris )I'm reopening this bug.

Comment 26

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Over to Ben.

Comment 27

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

While I think about it, morphing old bugs to cover new things is bad. So I've
created a new bug and this bug gets duped against this new bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225175 ***

Comment 28

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Moving to new installer component.

Comment 29

[blitzreiter]

ask nullsoft! This is not related to the Mozilla project.