IdP V4 Installer

[Rod Widdowson]

This mail is targeted at those of you who have embedded or otherwise extended the V3 installer.  

For V4 we are in the process of rewriting the installer with three aims:

   - To maintain backwards compatibility at both the "programmatic" and the "user experience" levels.
   - To make your injection of user input (installation directories passwords and so forth) easier.
   - To make it significantly easier for us to introduce new customizations to the installation in patch releases.

As far as you are concerned the key point is the formalization of the APIs used to interact with the installation and the fact that
these are set in Java, not (necessarily) as properties set in a JVM.

I have tried to capture this here [1].    You input would be appreciated and you might want to start making plans on how to best
leverage these new capabilities.

As always there is an element of time pressure.  I hope to be code frozen by the end of this month, but I'm expecting to be able to
accept suggestions for extensions up to the start of December...

Thanks

	Rod

[1] https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/DEV/V4+Windows+Installer+-+Developer+Notes