Cross platform installer depends on XWin display

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Affects Version/s: 1.5.6
  • Fix Version/s: 1.5.6
  • Component/s: None
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    Solaris 9 accessed from Window client over Putty ssh terminal - cross platform installation.

Description

(I will say that this is my first bug report and I am inexperienced with Groovy, so if it's a load of rubbish then just close it

The installation of groovy seems to depend on the Xwin server running. I can see no reason for this dependency, for what is essentially a command line and script based tool. Or did I miss some configuration trick?
(I also did not find any installation prerequisite list, e.g. groovy depends on JRE 1.5 and Xwin server etc).

To install groovy, I had to install the Cygwin/X server and I have to run it tunnelled through Putty just to perform the installation.

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Julien Ponge added a comment -

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

More seriously, IzPack which is used to create the installer works in GUI mode. Please note that sometimes Unix JDKs have a runtime dependency on X11 libraries. It depends how it has been compiled.

On a server I would recommend downloading another packaging of Groovy such as the binaries archive.

Cheers

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Julien Ponge added a comment - It's not a bug, it's a feature! More seriously, IzPack which is used to create the installer works in GUI mode. Please note that sometimes Unix JDKs have a runtime dependency on X11 libraries. It depends how it has been compiled. On a server I would recommend downloading another packaging of Groovy such as the binaries archive. Cheers
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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

So shall I close this issue as "won't fix"?

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - So shall I close this issue as "won't fix"?
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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

For servers, indeed, the prefered way is to use the binary distribution.
I'm closing the ticket.

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - For servers, indeed, the prefered way is to use the binary distribution. I'm closing the ticket.

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  • Assignee:
    Guillaume Laforge
    Reporter:
    Robin Julian
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