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[Critias]

How well does the mac and linux versions work?

They don't. I would not be surprised if you had to maintain a separate installer for each operating system you wish to support.

Someone on StackOverflow has a similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3904449/installation-for-mac-and-linux-on-a-windows-machine

The answer to that question points to this page which suggests you may have to shell out some cash to get the features you want: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software

Best of luck.

[tametick]

How well does the mac and linux versions work?

They don't. I would not be surprised if you had to maintain a separate installer for each operating system you wish to support.

I know, that was a joke.

I've already decided to write my own in c#/mono.

[SuperDisk]

For a pretty unimportant application (not a lot of people use it), I actually wrote mine in Windows Batch and GNU Wget for Windows. It was really easy.

Code:

@echo off

if exist remoteversion.vfe del remoteversion.vfe


rem Download the versionfile, and if different than local versionfile, redownload program.

set /p localversion=<localversion.vfe
set /a localversion=%localversion%

call wsocket -t 20 http://superdisk.x10.mx/MCSkin2D/remoteversion.vfe
set /p remoteversion=<remoteversion.vfe
set /a remoteversion=%remoteversion%

if %remoteversion% gtr %localversion% (
    msg * Your Version: %localversion%, Newest Version: %remoteversion%   You are out of date. Press OK to update your version.
    msg * This will take a while. Please wait.
    del localversion.vfe
    ren remoteversion.vfe localversion.vfe
    del ..\library.zip
    cd ..
    call Wsocket\wsocket -t 20 http://superdisk.x10.mx/MCSkin2D/library.zip
    msg * You are now up to date!
    ) else (
    del wsocket\remoteversion.vfe
    )

Don't ask me why I renamed Wget to Wsocket. :\