Re: GUB

[Karlin High]

On 7/10/2018 4:19 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Is LilyPond the only remaining serious user of GUB?  How does
> Frescobaldi do things?

Looks to me like Frescobaldi is using various Python code and something 
called Inno Setup.

From <https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/master/INSTALL>

"Freeze" installer
==================

The freeze.py script can create a self-contained Windows-installer, 
bundling all of Python, PyQt5, popplerqt5 and pypm (from pygame) when 
used on MS Windows. To use the script you need cx_Freeze and Inno Setup.

<end GitHub quote>

The freeze.py script:

<https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/master/windows/freeze.py>

Inno Setup:

<http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php>

That site claim Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is using Inno 
Setup for its installer.

And possibly WINE would allow building a Windows installer on Linux with it.

<http://derek.github.stavis.me/posts/creating-a-installer-using-inno-setup-on-linux-and-mac-os-x>

<https://gist.github.com/derekstavis/8288379>

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