general (non windows-specific) installer query
Rod Widdowson
rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Thu Aug 28 06:51:47 EDT 2014
I'm trying to keep the ant tasks general, and this is working quite well.
I'd just like to check my understanding of the fate of each directory:
Preserved directories (created empty, updated from dist)
conf
views
flows
Preserved directories (created empty, only populated appropriately if empty)
creds
metadata
Empty Directories (created empty never touched)
edit-webapp
logs
Overwritten directories (deleted[*] and overwritten)
system
dist
doc
bin
Don't know yet but will be one of the above
jetty-base
misc
Special:
war - deleted[*] and overwritten. A specific task "build-war"
will update from edit-webapp and then made into a
war file.
[*] When I say "deleted" I probably mean "renamed into an 'old' folder with
a date-derived name".
This seems to work well:
- Once ant has been run once the distribution can be deleted
- An up to date packed and unpacked war is present
- I think I can make this entirely rational, with the only
difference between MSI and non-MSI
Being an extra task which effectively does what the MSI gives for
free (the file copy & delete)
- The user can run build-war as often as they want.
Obviously V2 confuses the issue slightly, but not massively.
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