I actually have one sold useful request:
- allow the installer to run with out user interaction; this is
central to letting people deploy the thing in a managed operating
environment

And two things that would just be nice to have:
- have a page that is willing to open the security text file so users
can change the admin/geoserver password; the postgis installer does
this kind of stuff and combined with comments in the config files it
results in a good experience
- have the installer start geoserver; and open up a web page to look
at it (even if the installer has to pass in a command line option to
ask geoserver to open the web page)

You are of course warned about the vista restrictions on where the
data directory can live (ie not in program files or it starts doing
shadow directory stuff); I understand that this is even more trouble
when running as a service - give some thought to what user geoserver
would be running as (the postgis installer still got in trouble with
vista last time I tried to let the installer create a user account).

Jody

> I'm not 100% sure that everything here is possible, but NSIS seems pretty 
> elastic, so I'm hopeful.
>
> Feedback is practically begged for.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Pumphrey
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org

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