[Spice-devel] [NSIS 3/7] packaging: Re-enable NSIS branding

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Lev Veyde <lveyde at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
>
> That's not the same. The installer is produced with NSIS, and I see no reason to hide it.
>
> It can be run on Windows, Fedora and a plenty of other OSes, so it's irrelevant.
> I'm also not saying about giving the attribution to all the libraries that we use, the user could find all the info if he's interested.
>
> Showing and make the NSIS brand on the other side is important - first to make more users aware of it's existence and second to show that it's actually being used by serious projects.
> Also, most commercial installers prominently show their copyright/trademark notice in the installer with no option to remove or alter it's appearance, so the very fact that NSIS as an open source product gives you an option to remove the copyright, doesn't mean you should do it unless there is an absolute necessity for this.
>
> Also IMHO, the need of the open source community is more important than some aesthetics considerations.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lev Veyde.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> To: "Lev Veyde" <lveyde at redhat.com>
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 12:10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [NSIS 3/7] packaging: Re-enable NSIS branding
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 08:26:29AM -0400, Lev Veyde wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Almost all installers provide this kind of info, and the idea is to show it so everyone, including ones who don't really know how and where to search will get a pointer.
>> So I think it's a good idea to tell everyone who runs the installer
>> "it's produced with NSIS", so that anyone who may need to build an
>> installer of it's own could search for it.
>
> I really disagree on that, this will not be useful for many people, and
> then, we should also advertise the installer is built on fedora, that
> it's free software, that it uses macro X and Y, ... so that anyone who
> need to build an installer knows it's possible to do it this way.
> I'm not against saying we use NSIS, but the way it's done is too
> intrusive, so let's hide it ;)

If you only object to the aesthetics, and not the principle, can you please
state what should be done to make it nice enough for you? Searching for
'branding' in [1] does find a few tunables.

[1] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html
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Didi