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GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Apr 26, 2015 · 1 comment
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PonomarSetup: Move language-specific subdirectories into .jar files? #11

GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Apr 26, 2015 · 1 comment
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PonomarSetup.exe currently has to install some 37,000 files, most of which are 
XML files. Most of these are language-specific files under the languages 
subdirectory.

Having such a large number of individual files bloats the installer's XML code. 
It probably also is responsible for the relatively long time to install and 
uninstall (a couple minutes). MSI installers/uninstallers read and write 
database entries for each file that is installed/uninstalled.

For modularity and ease of deployment, it may make sense to bundle the relevant 
language-specific subdirectories (languages/cu, languages/en, etc.) into 
separate .jar files. The installer would then only have a small number of files 
to deploy.

We could then also turn the installer into a web installer that prompts the 
user to select which language-specific .jar file(s) to download and install.

Reading an XML file that's contained in a .jar file is straightforward. See for 
example: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369794/how-to-a-read-file-from-jar-in-java

This is not a must-have feature. It could be deferred until after we've 
provided a basic installer or application bundle for each major platform 
(Windows, OS X, and Linux).

The code changes involved may be extensive (for example in the functions that 
search up and down the tree for the existence of a specific file).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ps008v...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2015 at 2:32
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