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Bug #5550

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Windows installer should be a .exe, not a .jar

Added by Christopher Brooks about 13 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Christopher Brooks
Category:
installer
Target version:
2.4.0
Start date:
11/22/2011
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Bugzilla-Id:
5550

Description

Downloading and running a .jar file under Windows Server 2008 is tricky.
Basically, the user needs to run a command from a command line, which can be
tricky if there are spaces or parentheses in the file name.

There have been questions about starting the jar file.

https://kepler-project.org/users/faq#under-windows-when-i says:

--start--
Under Windows, when I double click on the installer jar file, the installer does not start. What do I do?

Under Windows, the Kepler installer jar file should start the Kepler installer using Java, it should not unzip.
If it unzips, then see http://www.wikihow.com/Run-a-.Jar-Java-File

or

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/394616/running-jar-file-in-windows
--end--

Rather than shipping a .jar file, we should ship a .exe for the installer.
One way would be to use Launch4J, see http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/

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