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Re: DHIS2 live installer

 

2010/2/10 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

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> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hmm, what do you mean I can't do it? Like it violates the license?
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>> Well, I did do it, and it worked, but I guess Sun's lawyers will be
>> paying me a visit here in Lusaka. I packaged the EXE and triggered it
>> during the installation, similar to the Postgres MSI. The same
>> click-through installation procedures was used with postgres as well,
>> although this could be done silently.
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>> Yeah, the little notice that you must download it will not work here,
>> as there will be no internet where  I will be next week.
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>> If the Sun distro cannot be packaged, even the EXE, then this is a
>> problem, and we need to find another JRE.
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> Nice work..
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> I think as long as the end user clicks agree to the the terms/license it is
> not a problem...
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> Agree. Interesting to see they also provide silent installs...how does that
work, license-wise?
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jre/silent.html

Knut


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