That is unfortunate, WebObjects would be able to reach more
developers if we (or Apple) were able to make a runtime
installation tool for windows.
Just get the user to download the necessary file(s) from apple, and
write a separate bundle that will extract the files and copy
everything to the necessary places. That's almost as good as an
installer and avoids redistribution related legal issues. This is
what I do with the FreeBSD port of webobjects.
I got bored and decided to make an executable jar of your installation
process:
http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/WOInstaller.jar
vdoop:Desktop mschrag$ java -jar WOInstaller.jar
usage: java -jar WOInstaller.jar [version (only '5.3.3' right now)]
[destinationFolder]
WO 5.3.3 on Windows
java -jar WOInstaller.jar 5.3.3 C:\Apple
WO 5.3.3 on OS X (in alternate folder)
java -jar WOInstaller.jar 5.3.3 /opt
This downloads the dmg from Apple, extracts the pax.gz, ungzips it,
uncpio's that into the destination folder, and on Windows, it shuffles
the files into the Local and Library folders for you. Source is
included that jar if you want to do something else with it. On
windows, i turn the symlinks into copies. I'm not actually sure what
cpio does normally on Windows for this, but it seemed like the only
reasonable behavior.
ms
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