Mar 21, 2008
11:42 AM
Here's the xml version of the project--I've added the '.txt' suffix to allow uploading. thanks for the opera advice. bill
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Mar 21, 2008
11:21 AM
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.
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Feb 25, 2008
02:34 PM
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
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Feb 18, 2008
11:14 PM
I found the solution. I sniffed out the 'changed file' from my linux machine in the ~/.InstallAnywhere directory. The com.zerog.ia.PathManager.properties file (plaintext) contained the sourcepath information. My windows version lacked that file, even after I updated the source path and saved the file. I copied the file from linux to windows and restarted. IA prompted me for the new values and saved them correctly. To summarize: 1) It didn't create the 'PathManager.properties' 2) once I manually created it, IA re-populated this file.
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Feb 17, 2008
03:22 PM
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?
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Feb 16, 2008
11:29 PM
>is there any reason for which you have to use ANT instead of using the IA >built-in capabilities of installing files (and maybe doing any other operations). We have a pretty complex build system. We can maintain it easier in ant for several reasons. Our 'production' build is a subset of our 'development build. It's easier to enforce the relationship/keep consistency if they both use the same tool: ant. >It has even the ability of running ANT scripts for you. Which action will run an ant script? thanks in advance.
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Feb 15, 2008
01:52 PM
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
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