Daniele Madama wrote:
* Gianugo Rabellino:
I think so, Cocoon 2.1 is here to stay for a while. FWIW, a
colleague of mine (Daniele Madama) wrote a small GUI to manage
blocks selection (think make xconfig for the linux kernel). If
you deem it useful, my take is Daniele would be glad to
contribute it.
On FreeBSD, there is a Cocoon installer that has such a GUI. See
attached screenshot. This is based on a BSD Makefile.
My installer is similar to this, but it is written in SWING. It has a
selection of blocks (read and pre-selected from [local.]blocks.properties)
with their description (read from gump.xml) and it will have a selection
from principal build.properties (like samples, javadoc, and more).
I hope to have time to finish some feature and donate it, if you want and
if you think that it was useful. ;)
Since the scope of the work required of the AntInstaller and yours isn't
that different, I'd be interested to see yours.
Interesting to see that you use the descriptions from gump.xml. I put
those there when I was planning to do build this installer, for the very
purpose you are using them for!
Regards, Upayavira
