Windows installer

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/30/14, 3:02 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>All of which makes me realize that the time is approaching for me to cut
>the
>windows installer.  The way that the 'Quick' installer worked was that it
>took a distribution and mashed it together (with the embedded container).
>I'd rather avoid doing this - it is far from seamless and has the
>unpleasant
>side effects that all the configuration files turn up with the line
>termination of the build machine (which are never correct).

Can you be more clear about what the issues are with the mashup you're
referring to? Do you mean you want the distribution itself to be
integrated with the MSI more tightly instead of having the MSI run two
separate installers?

>Other points are:
>	- I'd also like the new installer to be able to upgrades properly
>(again, including the container).
>	- I'd like simple prepackaged configuration for a standard AD layout
>(which should just be amendments to the properties file,
>	  but I'd like this as an option.

I think we want to pursue embedding Jetty for this version and use that as
a proving ground for doing it more generally. At least that would be my
take.

-- Scott