[SDL] Installation of binary apps on linux

[Gerry JJ]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:09:21 +0100, Gerry JJ <trick at icculus.org> wrote:
> Who said anything about a single binary ?  If the installer is standard,
> or rather, a standard *interface* already installed in the distro, the
> package doesn't have to include any executable code for that part.  For  
> the
> app/game, it could include executables for all supported architectures,  
> and
> the installer could choose between them at install time (ala what Loki
> Setup does).

(Man, that paragraph was a mess..).  To clarify, the installer could run
install scripts of some kind, providing an interface to do all the things
that installers usually do.  The packages could include scripts and icons
and such (in addition to program/data tarballs) in an archive with a  
special
magic and/or mimetype to have the distro's file managers automatically run
these with the installer for this kind of files.  Basically a kind of rpm  
or
deb, except that this wouldn't be distro-specific and would have a  
graphical
installer with the possibility of showing readmes and eulas, inputting  
keys,
selecting options, etc.

~ Gerry