msi
msi
The exe target is just a plain zip SFX, even though it looks like an installer already. (Still suitable for small projects). Windows users however may wish to have proper .msi
installers instead.
Now this is an obvious target, has been covered in the fpm issues or mailing list already.
Use msitools
- Is the simplest alternative so far.
- But is still woefully hard to build and distribute. (Vala with GObject introspection make it unsuitable for static builds.)
- And lastly doesn't actually provide an installer GUI. Generated MSIs are a plain text-based extractor still.
Note
I'm not actually a Windows user; so don't care enough about this. It's still a sensible feature to have for fpm
.