Nixstaller 0.2.2

Nixstaller project can easily make installers for Unix-like systems.
Main features:
- Can be translated(no UTF yet). Dutch and English translations are supplied by default
- Screen where the user can choose the language
- Optional intro screen with customizable image and text
- Optional screen where a user have to accept a license agreement
- Optional screen where the user has to select a destination directory
- Optional screen where the user can set parameters used by installation commands
- Installation progress screen
- Optional screen which appears when the installation is done
Nixstaller can be fully translated and is programmed in C++ and sh.
Configuration:
- Ofcourse can nixstaller be configured;
- Can use either gzip or bzip2 to compress the files
- You can specify which frontends you want to be included
- A way to specify which frontends for which Operating Systems should be included
- Extraction directory can be specified: Specified by the user, to a default directory(IE for binaries), temporary(IE for compiling the package)
- A way to specify any shell commands that will be executed after the files are extracted. You can also specify the used parameters for each command(IE --prefix for ./configure) so that the user can configure them before the installation begins. This feature is especially handy for compiling a package on the users system.
How it works:
- When creating the installer a self extractable archive will be created (powered by makeself). The only thing the user has to do is running this script, it then will do:
- Extract some required files for the graphical frontends(configuration file, translations, archive containing the files to be installed(this is not extracted before installation) etc). - Default the files will go in a subdirectory on /tmp.
- Search for the right frontend(depending on which are included, if X is running etc).
- Launch this frontend.
- Clean the files used by the installer.