Hi,

Our company has developed a desktop application which uses Firebird as
its local database. (The application is NOT client/server. However we
decided to use Firebird for its capabilities.)

We are now looking at the installation of the application. Our
installation obviously needs to include a minimal Firebird client and
server installation - preferably occuring silently in the background. We
are targetting all Win32 platforms.

Our preference is to use Windows Installer (something like Wise for
Windows Installer). Are there any Merge Modules for this around
already? Or should we develop our own installation by copying the other
installation scripts (Inno Setup etc.).

Also it is possible that some of our customers will already have
Interbase installed (maybe for other applications). We would not want
to affect their existing Interbase installation. How do we make
Firebird and Interbase run side by side? Or should we just use the
existing Interbase installation (we use Delphi DBExpress to access the
database)?

Any help and suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Paul Klink
Paritech