Windows installer musings

[Tom Zeller]

>>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.

I'm not sure what exactly the Windows installer has to do, but the
choices are Ant, Gradle, or Java. Ant's probably the quickest to get
rolling.