Re: [Vicaya-user] RFC - distributing the JRE

[Alexander E G. <lx...@po...>]

Hej Hugo,

Thanks for the response. Glad to hear the consideration is not a
shameful compromise. I've had relatively good success running Sun's
JRE from CDROM on Windows. It's slow, but works. I have to look more
deeply into the licensing. Would a Windows-only script be acceptable?

I'm fairly certain a Unix guru could solve the issues I'm having with
Linux. I get permission denied errors when running off the CDROM. I do
not have this same issue when running off the hard drive with all
directories/files read-only. It could very well be the executable bit
(u+x) that's giving me trouble. I do not know how to (if one can)
extend the ISO 9660 FS.

Alex

On 4/28/06, Hugo Gayosso <hga...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> On 4/28/06, Alexander E Genaud <lx...@po...> wrote:
> > I would like your thoughts on the following consideration:
> >
> > I would like to distribute Vicaya on CDROM with various JRE
> > installation packages. Vicaya may run from the CDROM, but the JRE will
> > not run from the CDROM. Vicaya will attempt to run with the assumption
> > that a JRE is already installed on the computer.
> >
> > If a JRE has not already been installed, the Vicaya will gracefully
> > fail. The user may then locate the appropriate JRE on the CDROM and
> > use the vendor provided JRE installation. Alternatively they may
> > obtain the latest JRE from the web. These steps can be documented
> > fairly easily.
>
> As long as the licenses allow us to distribute them in this way I like
> this approach, although it may be eaiser to include only the JRE from
> one vendor to avoid possible confusion among users not very
> computer-savvy.
>
> Although for those users that can't install anything on their
> computers for any reason what about providing them also with a
> completely-from-CD-ROM version?
>
>
> --
> Hugo

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Alex
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