The obvious advantage of having a top level directory is that user can
delete just that to get rid of an installation. It is especially needed
because there is no separate installer/uninstaller.
Sahoo
Snjezana Sevo-Zenzerovic wrote:
> FWIW, I did it on purpose since I wanted to keep the file layout of
> developer build as close as possible to the file layout of the
> official, IPS enabled distribution (and this includes IPS enabled zip
> based installation). Inconsistent handling of javadb location was/is a
> pain point since we run into situations where tests were working on
> developer distribution and not on IPS one and vice versa.
>
> There are obviously pros and cons of this approach, so I would
> certainly like to hear some more input on this...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Snjezana
>
> Sahoo wrote:
>
>> This does not look correct to me. When I unzip glassfish.zip, mq is
>> getting installed parallel to glassfish dir. While that structire is
>> OK for IPS package layout, for zip based installer, everything should
>> be under one directory.
>>
>> Sahoo
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