[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-2877) Upgrade to use izpack 5

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBDS-2877:
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During EclipseCon NA, some people demonstrated an OSS (EPL) project they have to create p2-friendly installers, based on SWT and JFace. This looks way more efficient than relying on IzPack. We should investigate around this tool and, if we like it, drop IzPack in favor of it:
* https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/p2-installer
* https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/building-full-product-installer-using-p2
* https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/sites/default/files/slides/p2-installer_0.ppt
                
> Upgrade to use izpack 5
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>                 Key: JBDS-2877
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2877
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: installer
>            Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen
>            Assignee: Denis Golovin
>             Fix For: 8.0.0.Beta2
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> Over the years we have done various hacks to izpack 3 and 4 panels to make it behave well/as we wanted.
> izpack 5 is rumored to have many of these fixes properly integrated thus it make sense to try and investigate if we should upgrade to izpack 5.

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