Hi,
The Openfire Windows installer is currently built with install4j.
The downside is, that install4j requires a license key and is therefore only available on one of igniterealtime.org’s (or Jive’s?) non-public servers: ignite01 according to Daryl.
That means:
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nobody can build an Openfire installer by themselves (even if they have an install4j license, they had to modify the Ant build script), people have to wait for the next official release, built by ignite.
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it blocks or at least hinders the migration to Maven, because it’s hard to test a build, which only runs successful on ignite01.
So what about using a different installer, namely Inno Setup?
It’s free and is the most popular alternative to install4j. And it works with Maven. And we potentially could include it in the repository, so that everybody could build an installer on their local machine.
The current install4j installer looks pretty simple, I am sure the same could be achieved with Inno Setup.
Any thoughts?