[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3087) Consider new installer packages

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBDS-3087:
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It reminds me of the talk from mentor graphics at EclipseCon US. They have developed an RCP application installer that looks quite good and that natively understands Eclipse and p2 concepts. It would IMO be much better to try using it than to keep on maintaining the IzPack based installer.
https://github.com/MentorEmbedded/p2-installer

> Consider new installer packages
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-3087
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3087
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Beta2
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>
> Today we have two installers:
> * Stand-alone Installer (504M)
> * Installer with EAP (642M)
> Both can be used for offline install, but both are large downloads.
> When installing JBDS IS offline, a user must download several archives:
> * JBDS installer jar (or update site zip)
> * JBDS target platform zip
> * JBDS IS zip
> And, there's no "stub installer for online" which would simply fetch the content needed to do the install from the update site, making the installer a much smaller (initial) download footprint. 
> Therefore Max has suggested that we might want to add two new installers, resulting in this list:
> * Stand-alone Installer (504M)
> * Installer with EAP (642M)
> * Installer with Integration Stack (~750M)
> * Stub Installer (~10M)



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