More options made available for mpm input files

[gamlab-jlin]

We now have a great list of installation options available.
Some of the options are also available to the mpm input files as well, such as destinationfolder=xxx and --destination.

It would be great to have the options to more flags such as --doc, --no-jre, --source and --no-gpu.
Currently, these cannot be set if using mpm-input files.

Maintaining installation in a configuration as code manner would bring more flexibility and readability.

[mw-skardile]

Hi @gamlab-jlin,

Thank you for your feedback!

Expanding the supported list of options in the input file is on our long-term roadmap. In the meantime, if your workflow requires these options, please use the non-input file workflow.

Thank you!

[gamlab-jlin]

Hi @mw-skardile,

Thanks for the insight on having this on the roadmap later. I am looking forward to it.
I believe workarounds can be used until this has been implemented. Workarouned could be a mix of the installer input file and a wrapper script (myMPM.sh) that could parse the input file and append the flags.

I appreciate the update.

Thanks for the support,
Lin

[embeh]

Here is another voice for having more options available in the mpm inputfile.
In particular:

• source path
• no Java (--no-jvm)
• file installation key
• licensePath

(some of these could also be solved by allowing to use --inputfile together with additional arguments)

Without these, we are unable to use mpm instead of setup, and setup does not have --no-jvm