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#8 Microbase Installer
It would be nice (especially for end-users/ responder developers) to have an easier installation process.
Not quite sure how this would work exactly, since the following are hard to automate:
* (Postgresql) database creation, user / password creation
* Java/Tomcat installation
* Copying .war file to various machines (i.e. setting up ssh keys/passwords)
All of these are difficult for an end-user, but they are equally difficult to have an automated installer for.
One thing we might be able to do is a GUI/Command line installer that prompts for database credentials, Tomcat installation directories and so on.
One potential solution would be to package each Maven artifact in os-specific packages that would integrate into that platform's package mananger. For instance, if each maven artifact were to be released as .deb Debian packages, we could have users "apt-get install" the various parts of Microbase they require. I suppose each Microbase core component and each responder would be available as distinct packages.
See:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/deb-maven-plugin/using-deb.html
Looks like this might work with Debian/Ubuntu. It would limit users to using these operating systems, but with the advantage of an easier installation/update process.
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Oops, the link should have been:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/deb-maven-plugin/