Miranda NG

Next Generation of Miranda IM

PluginInstaller 0.2

2002-11-30 Addons

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Description: An easy to use plugin installer. Installs any plugin which comes in a .mir file (basically .zip renamed) into Miranda’s directory.

This version is not yet meant for distributing plugins with it, there are propably still plenty of bugs in it. If you find one, please write me an email. And don’t hold me responsible for any possible damage or data loss you suffer because of using this program.

I’ve put up a demo of how this could work on the Miranda web site. See http://www.bitfolge.de/scripts/miranda/

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InstallMaker 0.1a

2002-11-25 Addons

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Description: Allows developers to easily create an NSIS installer for their Miranda add-on. InstallMaker itself is an extension to NSIS’ zip2exe.

The installer that is created by InstallMaker automatically locates the Miranda installation directory and extracts the files to one of several predefined subdirectories. It also closes Miranda before extracting files, to avoid errors when overwriting active plugins. After installation, Miranda is restarted.

The purpose of this is to simplify the distribution of themes and plugins that consist of
multiple files. Also, by using this installer, authors are encouraged to use standardized directories for their addons.

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