hi, We have found a bug in installanywhere. The modifyText action does not allow a 'double slash' ('//') in the replaced/appended value. Instead, it always 'compresses' multiple slashes down to a single slash. Thus instead of this: JDBC_URL=jdbc:sqlserver://ourdbserver; We get this: JDBC_URL=jdbc:sqlserver:/ourdbserver; The jdbc driver chokes on the value. Our hackish workaround entails using ant's replaceregexp to add back the double slash. I've tried some experiments and multiple-slashes *always* get reduced to one slash. Also, escaping doesn't work (i.e. adding '\/\/' instead of '//') One last item: I confess this error occurs on IA 8.0.1, no IA2008. I can't log on to the IA8 discussion boards--they don't support firefox..(and don't have IE on my linux workstation). Yet we've: -paid a lot for the product -aren't in a rush to upgrade without a compelling cost/benefit -feel that Macrovision should stand by their product and fix bugs. ... View more

Hi, Our previous build engineer executed ant by calling ant.bat/ant.sh scripts from the installanywhere project. In an earlier post, an member had alerted me to the 'ant' action: this would execute the ant build file without any intermediary scripts. Sounds great/ But one question arose: which version of ant? If our build script uses ant 1.7 (or 1.8 or 1.9 or whatever), how do I make installanywhere include that version of ant? On a related note: We had a problem earlier where IA's version of xerces differed from the one in the ant library. The result: IA set the CLASSPATH environment variable to point to 'old xerces, and ant picked up a version of xerces which didn't like the syntax 'file:foo.xml' for 'SYSTEM entities. We had to change our syntax because we didn't think we had any control over installanywhere's version of xml parsers. thanks in advance. bill ... View more

Hi, I changed some hardcoded directories in my installer-project to "source paths". Everything worked fine on my linux machine. When I moved the project to a windows machine, I found a serious problem: * InstallAnywhere prompts me for the sourcepaths upon startup * I specify the two locations for the sourcepath variables * I save the project Next time I start up, InstallAnywhere again asks me for the source paths. I tried adding environment variables for the two source path variables, but IA does not recognize them. Questions: a) why doesn't IA save these source path values? b) where does it store them? I don't see them in the project file on either system follow up: c) when I run the ant buildInstaller task, how can I specify the values for source path variables. If I do not specify them, will build Instalelr use environment variables? ... View more

Hi, I have a couple problems with our InstallAnywhere installer. Our install paradigm works like this: * Installer collects a lot of info from the user and puts it in a property file * Installer runs ant (via 'ant.bat' or 'ant.sh' depending on the OS). Ant actually does the 'heavy lifting' Here's one of the problems: * Ant fails * User does not know why. To "workaround" this problem, I tried capturing the output of ant. I've tried the following, unsuccessfully: * in the "Execute Command" action, I've specified values for 'store processes stdout in:' by specifying a file name' * tried appending '1>deploy.log 2>deploy.err' to the 'command line'. To summarize the question: How do I capture the script output? I ... View more