| Re: [p2-dev] installer and director |
Hey Scott,Yes, the installer and director are very similar. IMHO these should combined somehow. The challenge will be to keep the installer simple. The idea there is that it is really just an example of what you could do. We are not looking to make it be the all singing all dancing installer to beat all installers. Having said that, the director is also similarly simple so combining the two would make sense.
do you have a feel for the functional overlap? Are there things that one does that the other does?
Another option is to put the headless part of the installer in the director app (inthe director bundle) and leave the UI part in the Installer bundle. That way people wanting headless stuff can just use the director app and the installer becomes a UI thing. This would mean pushing down a couple things like the install description etc. Not sure how much code that would be.
Jeff Scott Lewis wrote:
Hi folks,I'm working with the installer, with the notion of using it for webapp update/install.I'm aware of the director application and have used it in the past. Are there any plans to merge the director application and installer application? In some ways they seem simila...i.e. specifying artifact, meta-data repos, profiles, etc via command line [director] or a properties file [installer]...or both using p2 underneath. Is there any plan/thought/desire to merge them into one application...or do they have different use cases and/or functionality?Thanks, Scott _______________________________________________ p2-dev mailing list p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev