[izpack-devel] Web installer repository

[Vladimir Ralev]

Right. I will create a temp folder inside the $INSTALL_PATH if you don't 
mind.

Markus Schlegel написа:
> Just double the size is not correct, because the temp-dir may be on a 
> different drive than the Target-dir.
> Also I think the size does not matter anymore, since diskspace is 
> cheap, and most people have a lot of it. SO I could live with the 
> double space solution.
>
> Markus
>
> 2007/6/14, Vladimir Ralev <vralev at redhat.com <mailto:vralev at redhat.com>>:
>
>     I am also rewriting the download dialog, because the old one is just
>     spinning and seems to hang sometimes. This new dialog will track the
>     bytes from the stream and display basic stats, when content length is
>     not available from the HTTP headers it will go in indeterminate
>     mode but
>     still show the speed. Of course, when the connection fails it
>     still asks
>     for proxy and everything that was implemented in the previous version.
>     Let me know you have some other ideas.
>
>     One bigger change is that the pack stream is not accessed with a jar:
>     protocol URL, because it wants to download the whole containing jar
>     before giving the stream to the inner jar and thus it's not
>     possible to
>     track the stream status. Now, it will download the containing jar
>     to a
>     local temp file and proceeds from there. This reminds me that probably
>     we need to require twice the really required space in the packs panel
>     (because it first downloads the containing pack jar and then
>     installs).
>     I know that the packs show the uncompressed size and the jars can be
>     significantly smaller , but have in mind that these files take more
>     space on the file system than their actual size, so it's good to have
>     some reserve. What do you think?
>
>     BTW, here is my snadbox repository
>     http://repository.jboss.com/jems-installer-web-repository/test-7-6-2007/
>     <http://repository.jboss.com/jems-installer-web-repository/test-7-6-2007/>
>
>     and this is the latest web installer
>     http://repository.jboss.com/jems-installer-web-repository/test-7-6-2007/jems-web-installer-1.2.1.RC2.jar
>     <http://repository.jboss.com/jems-installer-web-repository/test-7-6-2007/jems-web-installer-1.2.1.RC2.jar>
>
>     Julien Ponge написа:
>     > Hi Vladimir,
>     >
>     >
>     >> Does it make sense to you?
>     >>
>     >
>     > A hell lot :-)
>     >
>     > I must admit that I haven't been using web installers for a
>     looooong
>     > time, so any improvement in this space will be more than welcome.
>     >
>     > Cheers
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