On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:27, Brett Porter wrote:
> That's neat.
> 
> How hard is it to improve the experience for users with this?
> - check JAVA_HOME in env, and if not set, prompt for JDK and set it
> - set MAVEN_HOME in env
> - prompt for MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL and set in environment
> - run install_repo.bat
> - add an uninstall entry that removes the directory and undoes the other
> things it did
> 
> I've never used nullsoft installer myself.

Is it scriptable? By which I mean could we incorporate something into
the install build to produce the .exe if it's that good? I'm going to
separate the install builder from the core so making some additions
can't hurt if someone knows how to make a good windows installer.

> Cheers,
> Brett
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 5:41 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Windows .exe file available
> > 
> > 
> > A self extracting .exe file for maven 1.0-rc1 is now available for 
> > download from http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html
> > 
> > If your mirror doesn't have the .exe file, please use the 
> > 'backup site'.
> > --
> > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
> > Blog:      http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
> > 
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jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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  -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society


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