RE: Windows .exe file available

2003-10-09 Thread dion 
Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/10/2003 05:51:30 AM:

 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.
Yep, it's scriptable.
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Windows .exe file available

2003-10-08 Thread dion 
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'.
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RE: Windows .exe file available

2003-10-08 Thread Brett Porter 
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.

Cheers,
Brett

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 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'.
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 dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
 Blog:  http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
 
 
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RE: Windows .exe file available

2003-10-08 Thread Brett Porter 
 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.

I believe it is. I know there is a guy at work that has played with it
before and might be able to help out.

How does this relate to the sea plugin? (Another thing I've noticed but
never attempted to use :)

I actually have an installer plugin at work that does a few different things
to dist (but similar to the maven.xml goals in maven's root project).
Possibly we can enhance the dist plugin to produce maven itself, and include
SEAs and other installers/tarballs with that?
Integrating that stuff was on my medium term todo list.

Cheers,
Brett