+1 from me. Having a cross-platform and consistent installer would be good for tomcat.
My only concern - I hope the 'one licence' would cover all versions of tomcat and more than one release manager ( and maybe it can be assigned to Mr. Gump and automated ). Costin On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Remy Maucherat wrote: > 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]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
