Hi,
in the current UIMA API there are no classes provided to install a pear
file out of the box. There are classes available that can be used, but
they are not well documented and the user must know lots of details to
get it work. I get more and more requests from users that run into that
issue, so I think we should provide a simple way to install a pear file
with an API so that it can be accessed from an application.
My thought was to have a PearInstaller class with an installPearPackage
method in a way like
PearInstaller.installPearPackage(File installDir, File pearPackage,
boolean verification, boolean installToRootDir, boolean localInstall)
to install pear packages easily within an application. The method may
return a PackageBrowser object where the application can get all the
details about
the installed pear package. For users that need more details about the
installation they can use the underlying classes and methods as well but
for
all the others I think that would help extremely.
I already have implemented such a pear installer method several times so
I would start integrating my work if nobody disagree.
What do you think?
Thanks
-- Michael
