[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-4201) CLI-only installation is available but does not provide necessary info

[Misha Ali (JIRA)]

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Misha Ali commented on JBDS-4201:
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Sounds like a good way forward. Thanks, Rick!

Can we have this as a discussion item for the PM call [~tim.moran]? The issue in a nutshell is that the text-only installer is available but we don't mention it in docs and it is not intuitive to use on its own and therefore should either be documented as a viable way to install the product (with instructions) or as something to avoid because we don't support it. 

> CLI-only installation is available but does not provide necessary info
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-4201
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4201
>             Project: Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (devstudio)
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 10.2.0.GA
>            Reporter: Misha Ali
>            Assignee: Denis Golovin
>             Fix For: 10.x
>
>         Attachments: InstallConfigRecord.xml
>
>
> I had some feedback from another writer testing a procedure with devstudio. He was using a CLI-only VM and was confused because the installer worked but offered little information, as would be expected.
> Essentially, the non-GUI installation worked (java -jar devstudio_version.jar) but did not ask where to install devstudio, nor did it provide the default target folder it used. The GUI version asks if the user wants to deploy devstudio after the installation, but the non-GUI version does nothing. The resulting user experience was confusion, not knowing where devstudio was installed or how to start it.
> My questions here are:
> - is the non-GUI way a valid installation path? If yes, we should document it, and if not, we should mention it, either in the docs or when installation happens.
> - If the non-GUI installation is a valid path, it should replicate the questions in the wizard, such as where to install devstudio and which jdk to use, etc. The difference between the two installation paths causes confusion.
> Any thoughts?



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