Thanks, Christian,

That looks great. I probably won't cross this bridge for a month or more, but this is what I was looking for.

And for Windows and Mac, just tell them to install the databases from .zip files or whatever?

Jonathan

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 6:45 AM Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jonathan, hi Hans-Jürgen,

If you are using our Windows installer, the NSIS installer
configuration file could be enhanced to additionally copy database
files to the target installation directory [1,2].

Does this help?
Christian

[1] https://nsis.sourceforge.io/
[2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-dist/blob/master/win/BaseX.nsi

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 8:34 AM Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de> wrote:
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> Excellent - I think this is a common interest of those developing solutions based on BaseX.
>
> And "as-a-service-optionally-local" might pass as a BaseX Solution design pattern.
>
> Hans-Jürgen
>
> (PS Sometimes the most straightforward ideas come to mind last, or late.)
>
> Am Dienstag, 22. März 2022, 23:31:37 MEZ hat Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben:
>
>
> We are creating server instances, but we also have users who want to work locally.
>
> Ideally, I would like to be able to create an installer that would add BaseX and a set of databases to a user's system. How hard would it be to do that?
>
> Jonathan