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Martin Malina commented on JBIDE-24803:
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It turns out that our assumptions about DV 6.3 were not 100 % accurate. DV 6.3 actually
either installs in a new folder - then it's a complete install including EAP 6.4. Or
it installs into a 6.4 folder. But if you point it to an existing directory which is not
an eap 6.4 installation, it will give you an error.
So assume you want to install DV into /tmp. In our Download dialog, you will set Install
Folder to /tmp. Then it will download the 900MB DV 6.3 installer and when it starts, the
install path will be pre-filled for you to say /tmp. But the installer will not accept it
- it either wants a non-existing directory that it will create for you or a directory
containing eap 6.4.
OK, so what if I entered the desired target directory in our Download dialog - say
/tmp/dv-6.3? What won't work (probably) either - our tooling will tell you that this
directory does not exist and will be created for you. But if it's indeed created
before the jar installer of dv 6.3 is started, then the installer will complain that eap
6.4 is missing in that folder.
I'm not sure what we could do here. We could automatically add a subfolder to the
target path when starting the jar installer. But that may be undesirable if the user
already enters something like /tmp/dv-6.3. Or we could skip the creation of the folder in
this case, that would probably work. But I would say that it's not worth the effort
and we can just leave it as is for now - it still works, but you will usually have to
change the install folder in the installer.
Now what about DV 6.2 where it requires an installation of EAP 6.4? The dialog says:
"It is strongly recommended you first install EAP 6.4 before proceeding." Well,
this is not strictly correct - it's not recommended, it's required - I am not
allowed to proceed without it. But I guess I'm nitpicking. It's not a big deal.
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What happens if you download dv 6.2 (that requires path to existing eap 6.4) and you
already have it configured in runtime detection?
Variant a): You already have this exact path in 'paths to search for runtimes'
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Answer: You will get an error: "Unable to initialize some runtime paths."
I guess it's kind of expected.
Add JBoss DV 6.3 to Download Runtimes Wizard
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Key: JBIDE-24803
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-24803
Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
Issue Type: Feature Request
Components: runtime-detection
Reporter: Martin Malina
Assignee: Rob Stryker
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 4.5.1.AM2
JBoss DV 6.3 has been released for some time now. I guess it should be downloadable from
Download Runtimes Wizard.
I've also created JDF-867.
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