OT: Method of packaging software for shipment

[Alex Dean]

For our Rails application at my job (which bundles Ruby, Apache,  
Postgres, etc, etc...), we install everything into a scratch  
directory, use find to remove all .svn files, and make a tarball of  
the result.  There's a lot more that goes on, but that's the basic  
process.

The customer just unpacks the tarball and runs a script to fire the  
whole thing up.  We don't support Windows for this app, so I don't  
have any experience packaging for that platform.  I think our other  
products which do run on Windows use an InstallShield installer.

alex

On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Eric Cope wrote:

> It needs to be deployed to Linux and Windows. I can't just tar /dir  
> because I have .svn files I don't want to include as well as test  
> directories. I planned on using a form of tar/zip.
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, James Finstrom <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com 
> > wrote:
> What distro is it running, It is pretty simple to make RPM's
>
> You can also as suggested simply tar it up tar -czvf myapp.tar.gz / 
> full/path/to/app/
> On the server tar -xzvf myapp.tar.gz -C /
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Its a web app intended to install on internal web servers that  
> should not have public access.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:57 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> If this is a web app, then, why not use FTP?
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/11/10, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> > Subject: Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment
> > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> >
> > Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:27 AM
> > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:19 -0700,
> > Eric Cope wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > I am wrapping a web application that is meant for
> > installation on my
> > > customer's servers. Does anyone have experience
> > packaging up software
> > > for shipment? What tools do you use? Can you offer any
> > advice?
> > ----
> > probably just a tar/gzip but that would actually depend on
> > what the
> > application language is (php?) and what if any resources
> > need to be made
> > available (i.e. scripts for initializing an sql db, etc.)
> > and also the
> > platform (i.e. redhat only, or linux in general or all
> > possible OS
> > types).
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
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