Feature Installer: Difference between revisions

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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 a 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.

National Language Support
Version	Languages
Version	BG	CS	DA	DE	EL	EN	ES	FI	FR	HU	IW	IT	JA	KO	NL	NO	PL	PT	RU	SE	SL	TH	TR	ZH
1.25	BG	CZ	DK	DE	GR	US	ES	FI	FR	HU	IL	IT	JP	KR	NL	NO	PL	BR PT	RU	SE	SL	TH	TR	CN TW

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.

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-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.
+'''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 a 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
-===Supported Languages ===
+==Interfaces==
-{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
+* 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.
+{|class="wikitable"
+|+National Language Support
 !rowspan=2|Version
 !colspan=24|Languages
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 |}
-===OS/2 Feature Installer interfaces===
+==Publications==
-* Plugin (NPFI.DLL) for Web-Browser
+;IBM Redbooks
-* Command line interface (CLIFI)
+*SG24-2010 ''The OS/2 Warp 4 CID Software Distribution Guide''
-* Workplace Shell objects
+*SG24-4295 ''OS/2 Installation Techniques: The CID Guide''
-==Versions==
-* 1.21 - used by: IBM Visual Age 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, the last few [[Java 1.1.8]] updates and [[Java 1.3]]
-====Prerequisites====
-* [[Netscape Navigator]] version 2.02 or higher if you want to use the graphical installer.
 == Links ==
 It appears that all download sites for the Feature Installer have disappeared off the net.
-==Publications==
-* The IBM [[Redbook]] [http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242010.html SG24-2010] ''The OS/2 Warp 4 CID Software Distribution Guide'' has a chapter on how to use the Feature Installer for distributing software.
-* The older version of that document: [http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244295.pdf SG24-4295] ''OS/2 Installation Techniques: The CID Guide'' has a similar chapter.
 [[Category:Installers]]