[kepler-dev] Urgent help needed for Kepler 1.x installer

[David Welker]

Hi Madhu and Ilkay,

The platform specific installer is not ready yet. But, we do have a 
cross-platform solution that should meet your needs for now. You can 
just use the "ant package" command.

For example, say I wanted to distribute the ppod suite.

I could type in the following command:

ant package -Dsuite=ppod -Dname=my-ppod

This would create a my-ppod.zip in your <kepler.modules> directory. 
Inside of the my-ppod.zip, there will be a my-ppod.jar which you can 
double-click to run Kepler using the ppod-suite. (Just as if a developer 
from the command-line had typed in "ant change-to -Dsuite=ppod" and "ant 
run."

This should probably work for your needs.

David
> All,
>
> Madhu is trying to build an installable release of Kepler for a group 
> of users. The release will have a few actors developed by CAMERA 
> project and the latest updates to the provenance recorder on top of 
> the Kepler 1.0 release.
>
> Any ideas on how to do this after the new build system changes?
>
> Thanks,
> -ilkay
>