[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3446) Add support for IzPack INSTALL_PATH property to predefine installation path

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBDS-3446:
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For now, would a workaround for JBIDE-20914 (making the jbds-dist-diff script support headless install) be to create a /Applications/jbdevstudio folder with the correct permissions? Then we could tweak the script to move the CONTENTS of the folder rather than the whole folder.

Or, what if the jbds-dist-diff script creates the folder and sets the correct write perms before doing the console install? Or could the script detect the OS and if OSX, prompt the user to run the install as root? 

Of course, the best / most flexible solution would be to be able to set the install path via commandline (because then we could push into /tmp/ instead of ~/ or /Applications/) but would any of the above workarounds work in the short-term?

> Add support for IzPack INSTALL_PATH property to predefine installation path
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-3446
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3446
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 8.1.0.GA
>            Reporter: Martin Malina
>            Assignee: Denis Golovin
>             Fix For: 10.x
>
>
> In a recent discussion around JBIDE-19852 , it was pointed out that IzPack supports supplying properties to the installer, so that some values are predefined.
> Details are here:
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/IZPACK/Unattended+Installations
> The idea is that you could run this:
> java -DINSTALL_PATH=/default/path -jar installer.jar
> And this would pre-fill the installation path to the path given in the command.



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