Re: [p2-dev] installer and director

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
>
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