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Note: Everything in this section is very likely to be outdated. For up-to-date information, please see the pages of Paul Ratcliffe, who kindly took over maintence of XWorkplace and WarpIN.
WarpIN is intended to become the new general-purpose installer for OS/2 to overcome the current lack of a both flexible and user-friendly installer. This thing is available to any programmer, commercial, shareware, freeware or GPL, for free use.
There are two reasons why you would want to use WarpIN:
- You need WarpIN to install a certain piece of software, because the developer of that software has chosen to use WarpIN as the installer. For example, XWorkplace and Odin [netlabs.org] are now using WarpIN.
- You develop software yourself and need an installer.
In both cases, WarpIN is for you. The package available from here contains all you need to install archives and to create archives yourself for other people to use.
WarpIN itself is released as open source [opensource.org] under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). But since the GPL does not restrict "usage", and "usage" with WarpIN is creating and installing archives, you can use it to distribute anything you like. That includes commercial software, of course, where you do not want to release the source code.
Choose from the following list to learn more and go to the downloads: