Upgrading from IzPack 4.3 to 5.0
IzPack installation files try to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible yet version 5.0 introduced some incompatible changes - mostly for consistenency:
Known incompatibilities are:
- The <native> elements must now be contained in a <natives> wrapping element under 5.0.
Avoid using the <natives> element with 4.3
The izpack installer will silently ignore the <native> tags contained inside a <natives> element but does not throw an error when you use your 5.0 installer file with version 4.3.x.
- Prepare to detect some internal refactorings when providing customizations: e.g. the class
com.izforge.izpack.util.AbstractUIProcessHandlercan now be found undercom.izforge.izpack.api.handler.AbstractUIProcessHandler
Using the IzPack Maven Plugin
Release 5.0 of IzPack introduces a new implementation of the izpack-maven-plugin currently found at http://izpack.codehaus.org/izpack-maven-plugin/. In contrast to the documentation there, an explicit dependency to the izpack-standalone-compiler is no longer needed.
Please note that also the configuration parameters and their default values have drastically changed, so in case you want to port your current maven build script you should consult the mojo class from the source tree for the current paramaters until a new Maven Plugin site has been published.