Windows installer musings

[Tom Zeller]

> On Aug 25, 2014, at 9:25 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/25/14, 8:19 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
>> 
>> Do you think we should follow the Atlassian model for non-Windows
>> installs ?
> 
> Yes. I think we should use an edit-webapp tree to do an overlay and have a
> build.sh or deploy.sh script that packs the war up for deployment.
> 
> That's our extension model, basically. People can drop extensions into
> that tree and it will work across upgrades. Unlike atlassian, this tree
> would be in the install directory, not in the actual unpacked install
> source. With their model, you have to recopy all your mods into a new
> source tree on every upgrade, but we can do better.

How would you compare the Atlassian model to Jetty's ? Both have externalized config, but one copies files to a single tree while the other allows parallel ordered trees ? Does my question make sense ?