GUSC

The professional way to deliver components on a computer is through an installer. On the bright side of things, it doesn’t really require a lot of effort, or any programming knowledge to create a setup package. This is exactly what GUSC wants to prove, allowing you to create a self-extracting installer.

The application doesn’t really require much on your behalf, apart from the files you want to deploy. The entire operation is wizard-driven, so even inexperienced individuals can build an installer in no time at all, given you have necessary files bundled together. Each step contains sets of helpful details, and it’s good to carefully read each one.

You can choose to create an installer either from scratch, or based on an existing source file. Needless to say that it’s slightly easier to start from an existing project, and you can also choose to save your own during the operation. In case you also happen to know some coding, it’s possible to have files compressed and ready for ActiveX installs.

In case you have files ready, you can either have files extracted via an install command, or simply extracted with no questions asked. This can affect the installation in the sense that files can either be unpacked and ready in a temp folder, or to a location of choice, which is the case with drivers and other such components.

It’s effectively important to choose all files you want to deploy, because the application doesn’t perform any integrity checks, or tests. Other steps of the installation refer to customization, which isn’t abundant, but allow you to include custom messages, a licence, and whether or not to ask for a system restart, or do it without consent.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that GUSC doesn’t really come with advanced capabilities to fully develop an installer. However, it offers a well-organized interface which include quite enough details to add your project, and deliver it to deployment through one of several methods.