On 02 Mar 2013, at 5:40 AM, Eric Kolotyluk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been toying with the idea for a while as a software developer who has > had to build installers for applications and services, and I am often > dissatisfied with the experience I get using other people's installers. At > one time I was playing with the idea of my own installer that would be cross > platform, but the initial bootstrap would be platform dependent, and install > enough platform independent stuff, to do the rest in a standard way. Modern OSes come with installation systems out the box, and operations people already understand those existing systems, there needs to be a very compelling reason to deploy some software using the platform's own deployment mechanism, and other software via a different system. The deployment systems that are the most painful are those systems that target a specific language. You can't just get operations to install the software, you have to suddenly turn your operations people into language programmers to figure things out when a deployment goes wrong. Ideally I'd like to see maven make it easy to create OS specific installers to offer the best experience for each OS, rather than come up with a competing system. Regards, Graham --
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