> > Idea is simple, but works. I like the fact that it respects the > dependency information. That will ease people's lives a lot. My Ant > based installer didn't do that. > > Here's a few thoughts: > > 1. Could you show the dependency information in the right hand pane? It > isn't always clear as to why a block's tick is grayed out. > 2. Could you add a page/tab for the basic options in build.properties? > 3. Could you add a pane that actually invokes Ant? If you could do > that, and added a 'welcome' pane, you'd have written a full > installer, which would be excellent. All it would need to do is set > stdout to an output stream that gets written to a list box or text > box, and has a cancel button. > 4. Could you make it use a more modern UI style?
Points 2 and 3 already are in my TODO list :D. For point 4 I think that any people with a little of SWING experience (isn't my case) could do a very well work. Any volunteer? :D > > I like the idea of what we have here. I'd be all for adding it to the > Cocoon 2.1.X codebase. > > What do others think? > > Regards, Upayavira > > P.S. My (Unix) command to invoke it was: > > java -cp > lib/endorsed/xalan-2.6.1-dev-20041008T0304.jar:lib/endorsed/xml-apis.jar:lib/endorsed/xercesImpl-2.7.1.jar:cbuilder-0.1-idea.jar > org.apache.cocoon.builder.CocoonBuilder > > Windows would be: java -cp > lib/endorsed/xalan-2.6.1-dev-20041008T0304.jar;lib/endorsed/xml-apis.jar;lib/endorsed/xercesImpl-2.7.1.jar;cbuilder-0.1-idea.jar > org.apache.cocoon.builder.CocoonBuilder > -- The box said "Requires Windows 95/98/Me/Nt/2k/XP or better" .... so I installed Linux ! -o=|=o- Daniele Madama Pro-netics s.r.l. Via Elio Lampridio Cerva 127/c Roma Tel. 0651530849 http://www.pronetics.it
