Windows installer musings

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/23/14, 11:58 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>> You may want to grab a copy of confluence and just see how that looks.
>
>That would be the WAR/EAR distro, right?  I see what it is doing and it's
>pretty much what I envisaged.

Yeah. The standalone one includes Tomcat, but I'm not familiar with that,
so I don't know if that has anything interesting to inform us.

>It does make me wonder whether I might usefully use ant for the "common"
>part of this work (creating the war file, copying files into
>conf/flows/view).  If I create the build.xml carefully it will be reusable
>(only the source directories would be different).

Sure.

>This of course does beg the next question:  Are we happy to continue to
>use
>ant to build our distributioms?  I know that Tom looked at other
>technologies, but for myself I'd say let's stick with what we know (there
>again, I am always happiest on the trailing edge of technological
>advance).

I think Tom had concluded that we'd probably stay with ant for the time
being, and with time being so short, I think we probably have to.

-- Scott