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qbranchcode / Qanban

Web-based multiuser Kanban application written in Grails
http://code.qbranch.se/post/listTag?selectedTag=qanban
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Research easier install of Qanban for endusers #21

Open mirhagen opened 14 years ago

mirhagen commented 14 years ago

Use IzPack to build an automated installer that:

  1. Puts qanban.war in a folder (could be ~/Apps/qanban)
  2. Adds startup and uninstall to start menu in windows and something like that for others os:es

Port and max memory could be configurable during installation. Folder for install should be configurable. Should work in windows, mac and linux. Should preferabbly warn if the user havent got Java 1.6.

mirhagen commented 14 years ago

Other operating or GUI systems, such as MacOS X are not supported. However, there is a special UI-variant that automatically pops up on unsupported systems. It informs the user about the intended targets of your shortcuts and allows the user to save this information to a text file. While this is not an elegant solution, at least it aids the user in the manual creation of the shortcuts.

http://izpack.org/documentation/desktop-shortcuts.html

mirhagen commented 14 years ago

Started to work on this: http://github.com/mirhagen/Qanban-Installer

Current features: Adds to start menu, Uninstaller, Configure port and memory in installation.

Tested in Linux only

xlson commented 14 years ago

Nice, we need to test this with mac and windows as well. If you send me a build I can try it out on my pc at home.

mirhagen commented 14 years ago

Does this work: http://github.com/mirhagen/Qanban-Installer

I'm not sure it's the latest, but I think so

xlson commented 14 years ago

It got installed but I didn't get a shortcut in Mac Applications.

mirhagen commented 14 years ago

see the first comment here. There doesn't seem to be any support for Mac shortcuts?

xlson commented 14 years ago

Allright, I wonder what they use in the Griffon installer plugin to get a real mac install, that worked nicely.