InstallJammer

I installed InstallJammer (http://www.installjammer.com/) on my Linux computer this week to develop installers for Windows versions of my ebe program.  Ebe requires gcc, gdb, gfortran and python in addition to the ebe code.  Many people would prefer a simpler installation process.  InstallJammer does the job.

InstallJammer is a Tk/tcl script with quite a long list of options for preparing an installation file/cd.  I only wanted it for Windows, but it can build installers for Linux and a variety of other operating systems.

I took me a while to guess some things which could have been easy.  To their credit the IJ team has a fairly extensive user guide, but I needed to know things like using the virtual directory <%DESKTOPDIRECTORY%> is the right choice to have an icon be placed on the desktop for all users.  I got tired of searching for that answer and started guessing.

Overall I am quite pleased with InstallJammer.  I can cope with it pretty well now.  I expect that I don't really know how to use it well.  Thumbs up!