Projects tagged ‘software_distribution’

The MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family, with Mac OS X being the primary target. There are currently over ... [More] 6000 ports available, with more being added on a regular basis. [Less]

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for creating quick and user-friendly installers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a script-based system that adds a very small overhead, only ... [More] 34 KB. It features LZMA compression, support for multiple languages, and an easy-to-use plugins system [Less]

The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for ... [More] download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download pre-compiled binary packages or build everything from source. [Less]

py2exe is a Python Distutils extension which converts Python scripts into executable Windows programs, able to run without requiring a Python installation.

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications. It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions ... [More] such as platform-specific installers and package managers. IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run. [Less]

The OpenCSW project is aimed in producing high-quality packages for production versions of Solaris. Making the build descriptions publicly available to reproduce the builds is essential for the project.

Autopackage makes software installation on Linux easy. Software distributed using Autopackage can be installed on multiple Linux distributions and integrate well into the desktop environment.

Sparkle is a module that developers can stick in their Cocoa (Mac OS X) applications (five-step install!) to get instant self-update functionality.

Umigumi simplifies the gerenation of custom Linux distributions and their deployment on various media: Flash memory cards, LiveCD, hard disk, etc. Umigumi has been originally developped by the ... [More] OpenBrick community for the OpenBrick open embedded platform and is now the tool of choice to generate ERP5 Live CDs. [Less]

A GUI Frontend to IzPack built with Java Swing to create an installer for your application. Installers are cross-platform, multi-language and very versatile to fit your needs.