[vlc-devel] vlc for msi, compiling and packaging..

[David Thistlewood]

Hey, so I read on a forum there (your forums are broken btw, it's not
sending my verification email so I was unable to post on the thread)
about a person inquiring about the absence on the latest .21 release of an
msi package.  First, I think more companies and businesses than you realize
utilize your product, at least that was the opinion of 1 person on your dev
team..  Schools also use it as well as it is an excellent solution for
various media types to be played by staff for students.

Anyway, while disappointed that your team no longer will be pushing out
MSI's., there has to have been a work flow/process that *someone* did
there, as there *were* .msi releases.  I'm wondering if you would be
willing to share that work flow, whatever documentation they
used/followed/made to compile and package as an .msi.  The dev mentioned if
someone else wanted to do it, so be it (well technically his response was
to feel free to hire a professional packager to do the work).  Is that
something that you'd be willing to do (share this work flow with people?
Maybe even just put it in the github root?).

Either way I have to mess with 'stuff'/  A handful of other product we use,
both paid and free only release .exe installers, so we do have a tool on
site that repackages, but it's not as clean and 'true' as an original
(programs like Admin Studio, but the issue it always grabs other files
being updated in the background and can get tricky when other files/systems
already exist), I'd much rather have a clean installer.
Thanks for your time and consideration,
Dave
Dave Thistlewood
Systems Administration
Gilbert Public Schools

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