What to use for creating a quick and light setup file?

Question

I am considering helping an open-source gaming project with creating their setup file. The game is currently weights around 300 MB and is packaged in a zip file, playable st

Answer 1

On Linux, YoFrankie has been using Zero Install. That's LGPL and also supports checking for updates.

You can either let users install over the web, or run 0export to create a self-extracting archive. 300 MB is quite big... would it be useful to split it into several packages (so that e.g. updates to the core engine don't require users to re-download all the level data)? Zero Install can handle dependencies like that.

Some other options can be found in the Management & Distribution section on gnomefiles.