Windows installer musings

[Tom Zeller]

> Yes, this is what I've been advocating, which is the Atlassian model. They
> create a pristine war tree and an overlay in edit-webapp that gets copied
> into the tree and used to create the packed war.

> [snip] I believe we should
> follow the Atlassian model and build a packed war and copy it to a
> specific location, and then we can decide separately whether our default
> context fragment would unpack or not. For Windows, I would suggest not,
> for simplicity and because Windows tends to correlate to "not very Java
> experienced" because Java is just bad on Windows and if you use it
> heavily, you ain't using Windows.

Do you think we should follow the Atlassian model for non-Windows installs ?