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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:43:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=BCrgen_Weber_=28JIRA=29?= <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (DIRSERVER-931) Provide a zip/tar.gz download for
 DS
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J=C3=BCrgen Weber commented on DIRSERVER-931:
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A .tgz of apacheds-noarch sounds good.=20
Just tar -xzf and run the startup.sh script, that should be enough.

> Provide a zip/tar.gz download for DS
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DIRSERVER-931
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-931
>             Project: Directory ApacheDS
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.0
>         Environment: Win32
>            Reporter: J=C3=BCrgen Weber
>            Assignee: Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot
>             Fix For: 1.5.3
>
>
> Provide a zip/tar.gz download for DS in addition to the platform specific=
 .exe download (like there is for Tomcat: http://tomcat.apache.org/download=
-60.cgi)
> In many corporate environments it is not possible for users to install Wi=
ndows exes whereas unzipping a zip archive is possible. Same goes for Unix,=
 it would be much easier to just untar DS into a directory and run it inste=
ad of having root install it.
> So installing DS is not possible even if DS could be run as pure Java app=
lication.
> Even if you have full control over your windows machine I don't like if J=
ava software registers with the system, I like it much better if a software=
 can be unzipped into a folder and simply runs (as with Tomcat, Geronimo or=
 Eclipse).
> A workaround right now is to run the DS setup in a vmware vm, zip the ins=
tall folder and unzip on the target machine.

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