PHP vs. Lisp? - Hackdot

Re:PHP vs. Lisp? by anamax on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @01:46AM (#312125)

Almost all windows applications are installed by running a specially built setup program. Often that program is itself a single exe, but not always. Occasionally there's a whole pile of files that the setup program moves to various locations.

This seems to be true regardless of the source language(s) of said application.

There are some nice tools to build said setup programs. That's why I asked whether they would be useful.

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Re:PHP vs. Lisp? by Tritis on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @10:53AM (#312416)

You're hand waving again. Is there a solution for deploying a lisp application to a windows end user?

If I develop an application can a user download an exe which installs the requirements and have the application run after clicking an entry in the start menu?

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Re:PHP vs. Lisp? by coffeeaddicted on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @11:27AM (#312450)

Yes, a tool that creates a simple to use setup for users, which allows those users to start lisp applications after an easy installation from the startmenu would be useful. Maybe that does even exist, I didn't see that so far, but it's been some time (about 3 years) since I last spend some time trying to do something like this.

I guess if it would for example install the clisp environment (if it's not installed already) and binds files with lisp extensions to it so they get executed on click that could be sufficient already. Do you know of a ready-to-use tool which does that already?

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