> <mailto:
ccustine@apache.org>> wrote:
>
> I have spoken with a few people about checking out OpenInstaller
> in the past few weeks and I wanted to give a quick little bit of
> information. I think the OpenInstaller project would be very cool
> for building up some consistent cross-platform installers using a
> single toolkit. However, while I was reviewing the licensing of
> the dependencies this weekend, I realized that the packager embeds
> at least one LGPL product inside the installer package (primarily
> CHARVA which looks like the tool used to create text based
> installers). This means that to ship installers based on this
> toolkit, we would be shipping LGPL libs embedded in the installer
> toolkit. So at this point I am not sure if there is any point in
> continuing down that path, but if anyone has any opinions
> otherwise let me know.
>
> The alternative for now is to continue to expand the current
> installers to additional specific platform packaging (Debian and
> Sun Pkg manager are frequently requested), which is something I
> was trying to help us avoid since maintenance and consistency of
> the packages requires a fair bit of time and interest, neither of
> which are in abundance.
>
> I have started reviewing the current installers and should have
> some of the current issues cleaned up by next weekend, but I can't
> guarantee that I have the bandwidth to learn how to create the deb
> and Sun pkg installers any time soon so if anyone else wants to
> lend a hand with that it would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>