From: "Dennis LaBelle" <dlabelle@nycap.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: freeDelivery - New version and move to SourceForge
Date: 9 Jan 2001 12:25:37 -0800

This message announces the first beta release of freeDelivery version 2.0

freeDelivery is a program that can assemble a set of files for easy
distribution and installation on another computer. It provides a graphical
user interface that allows the end user to install all or part of the
distribution files in subdirectories of his choosing.

freeDelivery is a TCL/TK program wrapped using the freeWrap program. This
allows freeDelivery to distribute other freeWrapped applications in an
efficient manner. When distributed using freeDelivery, a wrapped
application's freeWrap core is removed during packaging and reattached at
installation time. This makes the distribution of several freeWrapped
application in the same installation very efficient. The same is true for
any copy of the freeWrap program which is packaged for distribution.

Although freeDelivery is especially efficient at distributing freeWrapped
applications, all types of file and application can be packaged with
freeDelivery.

freeDelivery executables are freely available for both Linux and
Windows95/98/NT.

Instructions and source code for building freeDelivery on both Windows and
UNIX platforms is also freely available.


Please visit the freeDelivery home page at its new home:

          http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/freedelivery.html


Changes implemented in version 2.0b1
------------------------------------

1) freeDelivery has been wrapped with and adapted to freeWrap version 5.0b1
2) freeDelivery now properly differentiates between all versions of
freeWrapped files.
3) Spaces can now be used in file path names.
4) The ability to "run a TCL script after installation" is now functional.
5) The list of installed packages and their installation directory is now
available to after-installation scripts.
6) The value of environment variables can now be substituted into
installation paths at installation time.
7) Thanks to the current version of freeWrap, commands are now available to
create Windows shortcuts, add items to the Startup Menu and make file
extension associations in the registry.


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