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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 March 2010 09:21, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
We set this environment variable (should perhaps think of JAVA_OPTS as well)
as a parameter temporarily on jetty startup, that way we are not interfering
with how other systems use it. Not sure how you start up jetty, but if its a
java -jar command we could just add JAVA_HOME=XX as a parameter to that
command like we could add JAVA_OPTS=XX as well.


>
>
>> > 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
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Jason P. Pickering
>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>> tel:+260968395190
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
>
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