Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
scott hutinger (JIRA) wrote:
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-879?page=comments#action_12364221 ]
scott hutinger commented on DERBY-879:
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I think this it's important to get a reality check on the useability of the
docs. I think most unix people take the windows docs (although this shouldn't
be the case) and translate to whatever shell they like, because this is what we
do without thinking about it.
I can get my wife to try installing derby in windows (wow, that does scare me),
but I would agree with someone else that possibly an installer should be
created for setting up all the 'crud' that should be set. I would prefer to
get an installer, but http://www.izforge.com/izpack/ is GPL, I guess one would
have to find some possibly simpler method to install (mainly on windows).
Although at least a script, in a couple different shells should at least be
setup for unix/linux/ etc. One could argue that most people that use the
'non-norm' know how to setup the system, but I don't think this is always the
case.
Any good ideas about fixing this problem? It would be nice to have an
installer that isn't GPL and would fit within the Apache license, but I haven't
done the research on this...
One way to start solving these types of issues is to see what other
Apache projects do. Typically such problems have already been faced by
other projects, that's part of the purpose of Derby being here, to take
gain synergy from existing work.
For example I think I remember Tomcat had some GUI installer.
Dan.
Hmmm, you make it sound too easy :-). But yes, this is a very good
idea, too bad I couldn't think of it...
I'll take a look around and see what everyone else is doing....
thanks,
scott
