Dan, do you run Windows? If you do, then this might be something you
would be interested in?

I think an installer would be a great step towards ensuring that
people can try out VIFF. There was the recent request on the mailing
list which complained about the complicated installation instructions:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cryptography.viff.devel/403

That shows that we should put some effort into this. See also Issue15.

I have added you guys to the nosy list since you are the ones using
Windows... Please take a look at Issue38 about the Mac OS X installer
and tell me what you think a Windows installer should do.

It would be cool if one could download a single file which would
install all the dependencies needed by VIFF. We want to make it as
easy as possible for people to try out VIFF.

This could be an intelligent installer that downloads stuff as needed
from the Internet: first it checks for Python, then for Twisted, etc.
All the dependencies of VIFF allow redistribution, so there should be
no legal problems in doing this.

We might want to use NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) which
can create an installer which we can build under Linux, but which
works under Windows:

  http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page