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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Devs,
> It has been a long day and I have a large cliff to climb, but I wanted
> to share this with you.
>
> Further to my previous mails, I have constructed two installers for
> the DHIS2 live package, using the H2 database (and also postgresql).
>
> They are two variants available from here
>
> bzr branch lp:~jason-p-pickering/+junk/dhis2-live-installer
>
> The install.xml file is an IZPack configuration file. A a further
> variation of the IZPack file  (rev 3) will do a Postgresql install.
> You will need IZPack to compile and make the installer jar.
>
> With the latest revision, I have included a the DHIS2.xml file, which
> is a BitRock installer file.
>
> Read the INSTALLER-README.txt file for more info of how to get these to
> work.
>
>  I have made these two variants, because IZPack gave problems on
> Vista. I have not yet tested the BitRock variant  on Vista, but if
> anyone has this operating system, and would be willing to test it, I
> can help with how to build the package. Installs on XP are no problem.
> Mac, Linux and other platforms are yet untested.
>
> If you need a BitRock license, let me know. I got one for DHIS2 project.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>


Thanks a lot for contributing this. An installer that includes Postgres will
be very valuable.

I'm curious how the installer deal with installing Postgres. Is it using the
Windows binary distribution? Is it starting Postgres manually everytime the
application starts or is it installed as a service? Can we include an empty
or sample DHIS database in the distribution?

Lars