Windows installer musings

[Rod Widdowson]

> >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.

And for clarity - I think the mechanics of a Windows install and a
non-Windows install should be as similar as possible.  The major difference
I see is

1) The Windows installer deals with the unpacking -and so the number of
files it has to copy is less since it can place the non-user changeable
files in place directly.
2) The Windows installer needs to worry about uninstalling as well.
3) There are more features that we have to/chose to support in Windows.
Some of these are specific to Windows (QI update), some we are testing the
waters in the more constrained environment (Container install, config), to
allow us to decide whether we want to go make the features all-platform.

R