jetty-base 9.4 : run --create-files on Windows ?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/12/17, 6:46 PM, "dev on behalf of Tom Zeller" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

> How do you feel about about running 'jetty.home/start.jar
> --create-files' as part of the Windows Installer ?

Not great, unless there's a signature check. I was interested in it so we could tell stand-alone deployers that if they wanted to grab our example configuration, they could just do this and we (maybe) wouldn't have to distribute anything at all, just post a module file to bootstrap the rest.

> I'm looking at idp-installer/src/main/wix/IdP.bat where we unpack
> jetty-base, and I'm thinking that's the logical place to call --create-files.

Do you mean part of the installer or part of the "build the installer" step?

> If we don't like the idea of downloading Logback and SLF4J from Maven
> Central, I guess we could download from our Nexus repo, but then we
> would still have a Jetty-Shib version mismatch that would need to be
> overriden either in one of our Jetty modules or ini files.

I'd need to see mechanically what the problem is, but generally I don't see an issue with us supplying files that have to stay in sync with Jetty versions, if we don't have to give them to anybody and if they don't have to be changed after the fact for somebody who's already made use of the whole thing.

-- Scott