[izpack-users] Install Log file

[Bartz, Klaus]

Hi Fabrice,
I tend to give the installation creator and not the installation user
the possibility to create install.log outside uninstaller.jar.
At installation time the user often do not know whether he/she need
a log file or not. But if there are problems and the user open a 
call to the hotline, may be the hotline needs the informations.
If the adjudication to write a logfile is by the user, the hotline
often will have bad luck.
Additional it is easier to change not the GUI.
Therefore I vote for a IzPanel variable driven logfile creation
in InstallFrame.writeUninstallData().
May be it will be more consistent to declare a new element in the
info section of the installation.dtd, but this way will need much
more work. Therefore

<variable name="InstallerFrame.writeLogfile" value="yes"/>

Impl then a ten minutes job.

Cheers

Klaus


>-----Original Message-----
>From: izpack-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
>[mailto:izpack-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de]On Behalf Of Miraodb
>Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:39 AM
>To: izpack-users at lists.berlios.de
>Subject: Re: [izpack-users] Install Log file
>
>
>Hi Klaus,
>
>Context related...
>
>> may be I understand not right...
>I wasn't clear enough sorry...
>
>> I think to add a text area is not the solution because James needs
>> the logging post mortem of the installation. In the InstallPanel the
>> current installed file will by shown in a label above the 
>progressbar,
>> but often it is so fast that nobody can read it.
>
>It's true that it oftens goes too fast, but once the installpanel has
>finished and before clicking next, we could have a button for 
>saving the
>log. That would do the job.
>
>> A text area with a
>> scroll bar will be very big (4681 lines at my server installation).
>> But I also think that it will be a good idea to duplicate install.log
>> into the file system because some user have problems to 
>extract something
>> out of a jar file.
>> The impl should be peanuts. I vote for a facultative feature 
>controlled
>> by an IzPack variable.
>
>This is another nice solution. Just pick up which one ever you 
>think is the
>best. If we choose the second one then i vote for adding a checkbox on
>finishpanel to open or not the log that has been created 
>automatically by
>installpanel.
>If you need code i have something for it...
>
>> May be we can split the work. I make the implementation, you 
>the docu :-)
>> By the way, I write a short description of the summary stuff 
>and send it
>> next week to you.
>
>No problem, I'll do the docu as soon as we decided which one 
>to use and how.
>
>Cheers,
>Fabrice
>
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