On 2 March 2010 09:21, Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/3/2 Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> > > > >> > Lets not put BIRT in, we have Jasper, if people want BIRT they can >> download >> > and install it separately, its quite big... >> > >> >> Fine, but I need it here, and this was the original reason for the >> installer, so I will have another version with BIRT. >> >> >> >> >> >> 2) A "lite install" allowing the user to download and manually >> >> install, with H2. . Footprint is around 60 MB. >> > >> > This sounds good to me. I am envisioning this range of downloads: >> > >> > A. Cross-platform Live package >> > (DHIS 2 Live with H2 as we have it today, no installer) >> >> Well, we can build multiple native installers for the Live Package. it >> is just an extra line in the Pom. If we need a multiple platforms >> (Mac, Linux, etc) we can build it during the installer build. Of >> course, people can just grab the zip file if they want, but BitRock >> can build for multiple platforms. >> >> > B. Windows on-line installer >> > Similar to your 2. alternative. >> > C. Windows off-line installer. >> > Similar to your 1. alternative. A dedicated Java sounds like a good >> idea. >> > Can we achieve this simply by setting JAVA_HOME "temporarily" while >> starting >> > DHIS? I guess Bitrock allows for this..? >> >> BitRock can do this, but it may influence other programs. Could the >> Launch4j wrapper be used for this, or maybe an alternative environment >> variable? >> >> > Not sure JAVA_HOME is necessary - we are not compiling anything. I think it > could be sufficient to modify the menu shortcut links that start DHIS. > > We set this environment variable (should perhaps think of JAVA_OPTS as well) as a parameter temporarily on jetty startup, that way we are not interfering with how other systems use it. Not sure how you start up jetty, but if its a java -jar command we could just add JAVA_HOME=XX as a parameter to that command like we could add JAVA_OPTS=XX as well.
> > >> > D. Linux debian package >> > Bob's deb as we have it today. >> > >> >> BitRock can also produce a RPM, Deb packages (somehow) but I have not >> looked at the details. We might consider rolling all of this up into >> BitRock at some point, but it is good to have the deb installer as >> well. >> >> >> Regards, >> JPP >> >> -- >> -- >> Jason P. Pickering >> email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com >> tel:+260968395190 >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > Knut Staring > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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