Tclish

What is Tclish?

Highlights of Features

• Provides typical CD-based installs
• Provides installs which download packages via HTTP by simply placing the CD image somewhere on the web.
• Provides installs from one self extracting, self installing executable.
• TCL-based, and therefore platform independent (although it hasn't been tested on a Macintosh, that I'm aware of.)
• Does not require any third-party software to be available on user's system (not even TCL) except tar and uncompress on a UNIX system.
• What questions are asked of the user and what actions are performed during the actual install are both highly customizable.
• Designed to make it simple to combine packages from several sources into one install, with the package maintainer writing their portion of the install. (Example: TCL and its various extensions, which all come from separate developers.)

How do I get it?

However, it seems to me that any install package worth its salt should not need to be installed from tar files; so better yet, download the prebuilt tclish binary appropriate for your platform, from the Sourceforge project page, and run it. These precompiled binaries can be configured to install your application, but in absence of that configuration, they will do a web-based install of tclish itself. That will let you install the source as well as other binaries you might want.

(Tclish doesn't require any other packages, provided you get the prebuilt "install" binaries, with the exception of windows where you will need to somehow generate self-extracting executables for your packages; however you may find it useful to use the freewrap package to generate install binaries that have a built-in configuration, or are self-extracting, in which case you'll need freewrap.)

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