Exactly. I really don't want ant to be the installer, but I do want it to help in the install process.
Setting persistent environment variables on windows boxen would be very useful for me. Simon >-----Original Message----- >From: Bill Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:05 PM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: Re: Ant Featured in Out-of-the-Box > > >Hello, > >Chappell, Simon P wrote: >> Now how excellent can you get!? :-) >> >> I have been considering using ant for some installs, but had >wondered if it would really be suitable, now I'll look again >at the matter. >> >> Question (which may be answered on your site, but I haven't >read it all yet) how do you manage to ensure that you have a >JRE/SDK available for ant when running from a CD-ROM and how >do you set Windows environment variables so that they will >persist across sessions? > >That's why Ant on it's own may not be a suitable tool >depending on your >requirements. However, I used Ant in a project that used a commercial >installer for the GUI and JVM avalibility, etc. and then at >the end, it >handed off to Ant to configure or update the installation in >various ways: >* Upgrade an older product to a new one. >* Update .properties files. >* Fix newlines on text files. >* Fix permissions on files. >* Initialize a database schema and data. > >Using Ant for those tasks really made the project much easier to work >with and more maintainable. > >-Bill > >> Simon >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com >> Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Eric Weidner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:43 PM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Ant Featured in Out-of-the-Box >>> >>> >>>FYI, Ant is featured in Out-of-the-Box 1.0, a distribution of Open >>>Source projects. >>> >>>We wrote over 23,000 lines of Ant scripts to automatically install, >>>configure, and integrate over 50 Open Source projects, >>>including most of >>>the Jakarta projects, on both Linux and Windows and we'd just like to >>>say that Ant rocks! >>> >>>Free Community Edition for Linux documentation containing detailed >>>step-by-step installation and configuration instructions for >>>most of the >>>Open Source projects we integrated can be found here: >>> >>>http://www.ejbsolutions.com/products/obox/community/pt02.html >>> >>> >>>Everything you see in the documentation, and much more, is automated >>>using Ant with a little BSF/BeanShell in the few places >where we needed >>>full Java power. Quite simply, this project would not have been >>>possible without Ant. > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
