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Re: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies
Subject:Re: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies From:David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:11:28 -0400
On 9/15/05, Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> wrote:
> I still maintain that the biggest hurdle with open source is installation. For example, in a
> recent post, you (Bruce) mentioned Bluefish. I went to their Web site and got pretty
> excited about it. But after ten minutes of looking around I couldn't find all of the files
> needed for installation so I gave up. Too much work when the home edition of XML Spy is
> free, does everything I currently need, and the install is a single file.
This is not the first time this came up in a thread like this. I
learned how to script using NSIS, a freeware (but not open source)
tool for creating installers. It's been used by the likes of Sun,
Apache, and Google to distribute their software. I haven't found
anything that I couldn't do with it that you can do with InstallShield
and the like, and free is a lot cheaper than the $1,000 pricetag most
of the others have.
I had always had in the back of my mind the desire to get involved as
a tech writer on open source projects. It seems that maybe it would be
more valuable if I got involved as an installer-writer!
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