Program installer

Hello Crafters,

I am in the process of creating my Operating System for personal use maybe for a release not sure but i'm having trouble creating or even finding an Installer I could use I have 5 files that I want installed for now untill i create more but the installer is a bit evasive could someone point me in the right direction please.

Thanks

AoD

Moved to Ask a Pro.

The easiest way would be to package all files into one and extract them at the other end.

There are a whole list of tools that do this:

• Compress Counter-intuitively this doesn't implement compression, but packages all files into one.
• Package Similar to Compress but does implement compression (did you guys get the names the wrong way round :P/>). It also supports binary files too.
• Grin If you have a GitHub repo this is probably the best way to go. I think from memory it has the best compression ratio.

I know I'm talking about compression here, but there is only so much you can use to distinguish them. I'd say for your simple use case Package is the way to go.

Hey squid thanks for the info Ill try the grin seems easier for me lol

Edit: I went for package :)/> much easier thanks

I'm guessing floppy installers have been dropped now as people use them then lol

Edit:Once I've done some more edits I may release my OS. Thanks again Squid

Cheers

AoD

(time to give it a go)