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

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3087?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12982951#comment-12982951 ] 

Mickael Istria commented on JBDS-3087:
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Need to check, but it seems to me that the p2-installer from repo linked above creates multiplatform distributions.
Having spent some time in the past with the IzPack installer, I find it very difficult to maintain. It's really an old piece of code relying on a technology that no-one seems to support anymore, and on technologies that are not the most comfortable for our team (Swing, Ant...). Migrating to newer IzPack is not trivial and require a big amount of work.

But I agree that this change doesn't require such a migration to a new installer technology, I'm just taking this jira as an opportunity to tell how much I dislike IzPack 4.

> 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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