Re: Ant + XUL = Scriptable Installer - Comments?

Also note this (velocity templates for ant): 
http://linuxintegrators.com/acoliver/code/2005/01/07/208.html

That will make cheese even more useful.

Cheese is a limited-XUI minor purpose language really.  I don't intend 
for it to be complicated.  The idea is that installer screens are always 
based on simple layouts.  IMO it would be a mistake to make your build 
script have an uber-complicated UI.  Yes you might want to seperate it 
but then you start having complexity again which is counter to the 
purpose of Cheese.

Anyhow, Kit is helping un-suck my UI programming (I really suck at GUIs 
so I autogen them with JBuilder ;-) ).  We welcome assitence provided 
the principal of simplicity and limited-purpose is understood/kept to. 
(if I have to start visualizing or understanding GUI programming while 
writing my Ant script then something is wrong ;-) )

If you want to see Cheese in action check this out: 
http://www.jboss.org/wiki/attach?page=MailServicesMilestoneReleases%2Fjboss-mail-1.0-m2-pre3.zip

I don't take Cheese very seriously.  I kind of thought it was a cheesy 
idea and had clip art for a piece of cheese (came with open office) so I 
named it cheese.  I just couldn't find anything that did what I wanted 
it to do and lack of project doc for Dale's thing made it un-googleable 
when I searched for something similar.  Its amazing that I've gotten 
such a positive response for something I did just as a stop-gap measure 
for JBoss Mail and to kind of mentally wank off in the midst of more 
serious programming work ;-)

-Andy

Arron Ferguson wrote:
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> Very cool ideas they are coming up with. The Cheese one is cute. I kept
> wondering when something like this would happen. Dale's looks
> interesting as well.
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> Some neat finds Gerald.
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> [email protected] wrote: -----
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>>From: Gerald Bauer
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>>Let us know what you think about using Ant and a XML
>>UI language library to create a scriptable installer.
>>
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>  > - Gerald
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