MinGW 5.1.x Installer
Improved MinGW NSIS installer architecture. Should allow install/unistall and update of components. Distributed as standalone (all-in-one) snapshot version with and as internet downloader/
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- anatoly techtonik
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- anatoly techtonik
- Definition:
- Pending Approval
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 5.1
- Implementation:
-
Deployment
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- anatoly techtonik
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Changes from version 5.1.6:
[+] automatically update version in license file
[+] /offline command line option for installer to skip checking for updates
[+] add MinGW\bin to PATH option
[-] on uninstall propose to inspect MinGW installation dir only if it is non-empty
Changes from version 5.1.4:
[+] advanced uninstall log allows to remove only installed files
[+] support for tar.bz2 and tar.lzma formats
(no 7z, because no supported compile/
[*] updated NSIS and plugins to latest versions
[*] updated icons and headers
[*] parse Filename field in mingw.ini instead of Build to get latest installer version
[*] skip license page on update
[-] fix Java installation
[-] replace popup window about updated package with custom page
[-] implement numerical version compare (previously 0.12 was < 0.9)
Future Proposals:
- delete zero-sized files that failed to download
- add hypertext links to changes and sources on the welcome page
- add SVN mirror on Google Code
- more user control whether download new components or install that are already available
- combined uninstaller/updater that asks if uninstall or upgrade is needed
- display component versions on update, information what components are to be downloaded, and show download size and install size of each component
- parse RSS feed to get previous/
- parse ini file to get names of the packages
