Porting applications with "nice" installers

[Fernando Apesteguía]

Sorry, I read the answer but I forgot to to ask to CC me since I'm not
subscribed to the list :S

I had a look at the Opera port. The script is uses is a non-gui one.
The applications I'm talking about provide full graphical installation
programs.

I suppose I should try to somehow get rid of them.

Thanks!

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found two applications I would like to port. Both are written in
> java (not a problem) and both provide a graphical installer. The
> latter raises a couple of questions:
>
> One of the applications asks during the installation if you want to
> install Community (free of use) or Enterprise (evaluation only)
> editions and I'm not sure how to specify the Community edition without
> using the installer. Executing the main .java file in the sources
> seems to assume it is the evaluation only copy.
>
> The other application, when executed always launches an update
> installer that downloads the latest java files in the user home
> directory. Write permissions for the execution directory seems to be
> necessary (hence the fact that the application installs into the user
> home by default). How can I proceed here? If I install the
> "application" under /usr/local then nobody can execute it to launch
> the update application because there are not write permissions and the
> application doesn't run. Creating a directory with write permissions
> for anyone is not acceptable for several reasons either.
>
> Any ports dealing with these situations that I can use as a reference?
>
> Thanks in advance.