Feature Installer

OS/2 Feature Install is a software package from IBM intended to simplify the installation, configuration and de-installation of software onto the OS/2 operating system. Quite advanced for its day it initially offered graphical and CLI user interface support with the graphical support later moved into a browser based plug-in, allowing the developer to offer installs via a web page. The existence of CLI interface and support for scripting meant that the installer could be used on headless systems and fully automated.

After 2000 IBM started to used InstallShield internally for all software delivery

Interfaces

 * Plugin (NPFI.DLL) for Web-Browser
 * Command line interface (CLIFI)
 * Workplace Shell objects

Versions

 * 1.2
 * 1.21 (Dec 1997) - used by: IBM VisualAge for Java 1.0, IBM C/C++ Compiler for OS/2 3.6
 * 1.22 - used by: IBM VisualAge for Java 2.0
 * 1.23 - used by: IBM VisualAge C++ 4.0, IBM C/C++ Compiler for OS/2 3.6.5
 * 1.24 (Jun 1999) -
 * 1.25 - used by: IBM VisualAge Smalltalk 6, IBM Java 1.1.8 and 1.3.x


 * Prerequisites
 * Netscape Navigator version 2.02 or higher if you want to use the graphical installer.

Publications

 * IBM Redbooks
 * SG24-2010 The OS/2 Warp 4 CID Software Distribution Guide
 * SG24-4295 OS/2 Installation Techniques: The CID Guide

Links
It appears that all download sites for the Feature Installer have disappeared off the net.