[daisy] Daisy Windows Installer

[Andreas Deininger]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a windows installer for daisy which hopefully
will make the daisy installation somehow more convenient (at least for
windows users). If that project is of interest for you, I will of
course make it available to the community. The installer (based on the
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)  is more or less working already,
however it still needs some fine tuning. I'll come up with the final
result once I'm finished.

For now, I have some questions:

a) The daisy installation instruction specifies:

> Make sure that wherever you extract the download, none of the parent directories
> contains spaces in their names. For example, on Windows, do not extract Daisy inside
> your c:\Program Files directory.

What specifically is causing problems if the name of the directory
contains spaces? Can we overcome that or do I have to enforce these
restriction inside the installer?

b) The installer checks whether the required components (Java, MySQL)
are installed. If not there will/should be the possibility to download
these components via internet and install them as part of the
installation process. Alternatively, I would like to offer a bundled
version that already contains all required components.
However I'm aware that there are licensing issues while contributing
the Java SDK (there is also no direct download link as you have to go
through the license agreement prior to downloading). So my questions
are:
* could one include the SDK in the installation bundle (provided you
add the SDK License to the license shown in the installer)?
* is it possible to download the SDK directly via an URL? Or any other
ideas how to incorporate the SDK installation via internet in the
installation process?

c) I've seen that both the initialisation for the repository and the
wiki can be done without manual intervention by specifying a property
file via the -c switch. However, as far as I can see, that option does
not exist for adding a site to the wiki, correct? If so, could that be
added too, so that the graphical installer could comprise all steps if
the installation? That would be great!

Regards
Andreas