I have been contacted by Zero G Software with the possibility of using InstallAnywhere for making a Tomcat installer.
Tomcat currently uses NSIS for the Windows installer, and while it is powerful enough to get the job done, it is not multiplatform, and has a few annoying functional limitations. However, there's a major advantage to using NSIS, because it is open-source software. To get around this, Zero G has offered to donate a license of InstallAnywhere to Tomcat, as well as installer code. If we decide to use InstallAnywhere, it would probably be a good idea to put the installer code in a separate repository (jakarta-tomcat-installer ?), and also move the NSIS script there. The rationale is that while a NSIS install script is very small (one file, plus a few resources), an InstallAnywhere script is made of a significant number of Java classes. Of course, I don't see a reason for stopping to use the (already working) NSIS script, at least in the immediate future. Comments / votes ? Remy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
