About the Project
Our main goal in this project is to make software distribution as simple and effective as we can. Ideally it shall be completely invisible for the Authors and their Clients. Or at least it shall be a fun.
We want to save the creative energy of our Authors and their Clients for the things they like doing most. We hope that would make our world a somewhat better place.
Priorities
- It must always work as expected.
- It must be easy to understand.
- It must be convenient.
- Let it be nice.
- Technical perfection does matter.
Nearest plans
Our development plans are based on the requests of our users. Let us use the moment and invite you again to let us know what new features do you need or what shall be improved in our product.
Project history
12-Feb-2008: Excelsior Installer 1.6
See details on page What's New in 1.6.
14-Nov-2007: Excelsior Installer 1.5
This release introduces a Windows Vista support. Other improvements are:
- Italian localization of the installation dialogs added (our thanks to Giacomo Margarito and Giuseppe De Stefano for their kind help in translation)
- Quick Install button is added
- Update packages for previously installed applications implemented
- Java Runtime Slim-Down technology is used to reduce the download size of the Excelsior Installer itself
12-Apr-2007: Excelsior Installer 1.1
The key improvement is the reduced installer overhead, illustrated in the following table:
| Application | Package size | |
| v1.0 | v1.1 | |
| Empty installation, 0 KB unpacked | 580 KB | 180 KB |
| Sample application, 728 KB unpacked | 1050 KB | 372 KB |
7-Feb-2007: Excelsior Installer 1.0
The first release of Excelsior Installer as separate product. It supports the most common installation scenario.
15-Dec-2006: Excelsior Installer is started
The project was started. Work on the Excelsior JET product have led us to the understanding that it must be equipped by its own installation toolkit. Then Excelsior JET customers asked us many times if they could use it to distribute their other software products. For several years we had to answer "no".
