Windows installer packaging issues

[megaglest]

Windows installer packaging issues

[tomreyn]

Note that Filux has written packaging scripts for Annex - maybe we can reuse some of this code.

https://bitbucket.org/annexctw/annex/src/HEAD/mk_release/linux/make-release.sh?at=develop&fileviewer=file-view-default

[softcoder]

updated installer to not include .git folders and not include Linux binaries

[tomreyn]

@filux Could you comment on the other things? I assume you're most acquainted with Windows packaging at this time.

[filux]

Creating Windows installers should be a fully automated process to rule out human error and to allow for fast and regular releases (and hotfixes)

around this ^ will be a bit to do, for now installer is easy to make on "windows where exist binaries for one arch only" (so jenkins workspace fits)

Binaries should be built live before the installer is created, not included from a repository

Well for now we have situation where "installers are created shortly after binaries were built" and imo this isn't a bad way and has even more pros than cons.
... and in situation when you are creating windows' installer on linux then imo "build binaries live ..." shouldn't be even considered.

Other points are most likely done as it was said.

[tomreyn]

Thanks for your feedback. I guess we can close this one then.