[Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 Live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Pickering
Hi there, Knut, Bob, Lars and myself have been having a bit of a discussion on the side regarding an installer. I had an urgent need to have something yesterday, so I have taken the initiative to create yet another installer. I am aware of other versions out there, but perhaps a fresh start is not

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Hi Jason Thanks for the effort you have put into this. Basically you are correct - all the steps for putting the pieces together should be easily automated. Not being a maven guru, I have not taken this last important step. So I have used maven as far as building the jars. Doing the launch4j

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Pickering
I am certainly no maven guru either, but am much more comfortable with XML,and since we are already using Maven, it seems to make sense, and perhaps it is really not too difficult, as seen here.. http://www.jroller.com/vschiavoni/entry/how_to_izpack_installer_with In the latest revision, done

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Pickering
Oh, I forgot to add, I am going to try with a full postgres install, instead of H2. This is going to cause problems otherswise in the long run. Better to try and get it right the first time around. 2010/2/10 Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.com: I am certainly no maven guru either, but am

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Pickering
I have made some more changes to the installer, and it now seems to work pretty OK. Basically, you will need to populate some different directories with prerequisites. 1) Put everything you need for postgres in the postgres directory.This usually involves unzipping that installer on the Postgres

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Bob Jolliffe
On 10 February 2010 15:53, Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.com wrote: I have made some more changes to the installer, and it now seems to work pretty OK. Basically, you will need to populate some different directories with prerequisites. 1) Put everything you need for postgres in

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Knut Staring
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolli...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 February 2010 15:53, Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.com wrote: I have made some more changes to the installer, and it now seems to work pretty OK. Basically, you will need to populate some

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Pickering
Hmm, what do you mean I can't do it? Like it violates the license? Well, I did do it, and it worked, but I guess Sun's lawyers will be paying me a visit here in Lusaka. I packaged the EXE and triggered it during the installation, similar to the Postgres MSI. The same click-through installation

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Lars Helge Ă˜verland
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, what do you mean I can't do it? Like it violates the license? Well, I did do it, and it worked, but I guess Sun's lawyers will be paying me a visit here in Lusaka. I packaged the EXE and triggered it

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Knut Staring
2010/2/10 Lars Helge Ă˜verland larshe...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jason Pickering jason.p.picker...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, what do you mean I can't do it? Like it violates the license? Well, I did do it, and it worked, but I guess Sun's lawyers will be paying me a visit

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Knut Staring
Here is a guy who seems to be saying the practice of just providing JRE unpackaged and bundled is ok. By far the easiest thing to do (not bothering the poor user with all these different interfaces - one for DHIS, one for Java, one for the database...): What I mean is creating a subfolder in the

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Bob Jolliffe
OK. maybe I'm wrong. I just assumed that to be the case because of how the licence dialog always popped up on linux installs. Thats why the openjdk was a such a good initiative. Anyway sun's lawyers are moot at the moment. Mostly staring looming redundancy in the face I imagine. Oracle's

Re: [Dhis2-devs] DHIS2 live installer

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Pickering
I reread the README.txt file, included with the distro. There is no problem as long as (a) you distribute the Software complete and unmodified and only bundled as part of your applets and applications (Programs) There is some other legal mumbo-jumbo there, but it seems to be essentially of