IzPack

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.11.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.0
• Component/s: Compiler
• Labels:

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Another feature I'd like to see in IzPack is being able to use variables for adding files.

Example use case:

My project ships in multiple flavors, they all have a very similar design but each flavor need to include a, say, different database dump. Now I would not like to maintain multiple configuration files, but rather have a install-base.xml containing basicly everything (and a {{<singlefile src="${FLAVOR}.dump" ...>}}) and a install.xml which looks something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<installation version="1.0" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
	<xi:include href="install-base.xml" />

	<variables>
		<variable name="FLAVOR" value="foo" />
	</variables>
</installation>

Now I could create one of these small files for each flavor and adjust the variable, and every flavor would use the same configuration, but a different dump file.

1. 

   izpack-365.patch

   06/Apr/09 9:05 AM

   2 kB

   Kjell Braden

• Assignee:

  Kjell Braden

  Reporter:

  Kjell Braden

• Created:

  06/Apr/09 8:45 AM

  Updated:

  08/Apr/09 9:07 AM

  Resolved:

  08/Apr/09 9:06 AM