Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > Simone Gianni wrote: >> Vadim Gritsenko wrote: >>> Make it easy to try it and people will come. >>> >> I do totally agree. As showed at cocoon-gt, I have a IzPack based >> installer that already delivers a cocoon dist, with a small gui with >> three buttons (start server, stop server, open welcome page) that start >> and stop an embedded jetty loading the dist .war file. >> It's a matter of a couple of hours to commit it and have it deliver the >> samples-dist. >> > If you can somehow coerce maven :) into building this binary demo in > the cocoon-dist-samples module [1], that sounds really great. It just > might perform the role of a binary download [2]. > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/dists/cocoon-dist-samples/ > [2] http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi > IzPack has an ant task to generate the installer, and they report on their site [1] that it has been "fixed for calling the IzPack ANT task from Maven", so it should be possible to incorporate it in a profile of a dist, so that calling that profile would generate also the monolithic installer.
As soon as someone else gives it's +1, I'll work on it on Sunday. Simone [1] http://www.izforge.com/izpack/history?s=maven
