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Re: Early form of an IzPack installer for V3 Prelude

From: Tom Mueller <Tom.Mueller_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:50:22 -0700

Julien Ponge wrote:
>
>> 2) It would be nice to automatically download the Update Tool GUI via the
>> initial bootstrap. Doing so will result in the desktop notifier being
>> registered as a desktop start up task.
>>
>> Currently, it looks like the bootstrap is being invoked to complete the pkg
>> client. At least providing an option that is selected by default to install
>> the Update Tool GUI and notifier would be useful.
>>
>
> Allright. I'll have another look at that. What is currently done is a
> simple invocation of the ucbootstrap JAR. BTW I had to dig into the
> source code to find out which options you can have in the properties
> file that you pass to the bootstrapper :-)
>
Here is the documentation on the bootstrap interface:
http://wiki.updatecenter.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=UC20FSD.InitInterface

We need to get this moved into the ipshowto.org space.

Thanks.
Tom