On 1/4/2010 2:08 PM, Krishnakant wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 13:29 +0530, Abhishek Daga wrote:
KK, is there a windows version going to be available anytime sooner or later?
Right now we don't have any resources for making a windows based installer. We don't have dual booted machines in our labs nither our developers use it. I will soon get some one to put a vertual machine in my box for some days and compile a windows based installer for GNUKhata. Again if there is some one who can help, please do so. I am yet to recieve help for making standard deb packages for debian and ubuntu 8.04 (LTS). And yes our rpms are also non-standard, not even worth mentioning. Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
Not my line of expertise here, but what i saw with vtigercrm is a very good example of what will make the customer happy. (note vtigerCRM is opensourced and on GPL) There is an exe file that my client downloaded (after ubantu failed to install apache from its own repository for some reason) When the exe was run, it first installed apache server on windows then it installed mysql on windows and then copied the php codes to the relevant folder and created the database in mysql initiated the browser and took it to the login page of the crm.
They also had another download where only the php code and text file with instructions of doing it manually was provided, naturally much smaller in size.
Whether you do it in windows or in linux, if its that easy to install the software, "general users" will be willing to try it out. I also realise that it was easy in windows as the possibility of another copy / version of apache and mysql being already installed on the PC was low..... I have no idea if it checked for existing apache or versions.
regards saswata