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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/3/2 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>

> >
> > Lets not put BIRT in, we have Jasper, if people want BIRT they can
> download
> > and install it separately, its quite big...
> >
>
> Fine, but I need it here, and this was the original reason for the
> installer, so I will have another version with BIRT.
>
>
> >>
> >> 2) A "lite install" allowing the user to download and manually
> >> install, with H2. . Footprint is around 60 MB.
> >
> > This sounds good to me. I am envisioning this range of downloads:
> >
> > A. Cross-platform Live package
> > (DHIS 2 Live with H2 as we have it today, no installer)
>
> Well, we can build multiple native installers for the Live Package. it
> is just an extra line in the Pom. If we need a multiple platforms
> (Mac, Linux, etc) we can build it during the installer build. Of
> course, people can just grab the zip file if they want, but BitRock
> can build for multiple platforms.
>
> > B. Windows on-line installer
> > Similar to your 2. alternative.
> > C. Windows off-line installer.
> > Similar to your 1. alternative. A dedicated Java sounds like a good idea.
> > Can we achieve this simply by setting JAVA_HOME "temporarily" while
> starting
> > DHIS? I guess Bitrock allows for this..?
>
> BitRock can do this, but it may influence other programs. Could the
> Launch4j wrapper be used for this, or maybe an alternative environment
> variable?
>
>
Not sure JAVA_HOME is necessary - we are not compiling anything. I think it
could be sufficient to modify the menu shortcut links that start DHIS.



> > D. Linux debian package
> > Bob's deb as we have it today.
> >
>
> BitRock can also produce a RPM, Deb packages (somehow) but I have not
> looked at the details. We might consider rolling all of this up into
> BitRock at some point, but it is good to have the deb installer as
> well.
>
>
> Regards,
> JPP
>
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> --
> Jason P. Pickering
> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> tel:+260968395190
>



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Knut Staring