Installer Types
InstallAnywhere offers two types of installers: Web installers and CD-ROM installers. Merge modules and templates, which are essentially InstallAnywhere subprojects, are also installer types.
Web
Web Installers are packaged into a single executable file by platform, and are appropriate for distribution over the Web or via e-mail. They use a self-extractor to prepare the source files at the start of the installation and, therefore, require more available temporary disk space.
CD-ROM
In a CD-ROM installer all of the resources are located in an external archive. There is still a self-extractor, but it only extracts the installer engine. Therefore, CD-ROM installers take up less temporary space and start up faster, but they are not ...
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