Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-08-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/31/2012 1:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:42 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:35 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: On 7/13/2012 7:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: I dont care about EOL'ed XP users needing to provision it, but what is the group concensus about having 2008

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/14/2012 4:20 AM, Eric Covener wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: With 2.4... once we clear up the socket misbehavior in AcceptFilter none node, its time to reinvent the msi installer. First question before us is host scripting

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-31 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 7/14/2012 9:42 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:35 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: On 7/13/2012 7:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: I dont care about EOL'ed XP users needing to provision it, but what is the group concensus about having 2008 (original release) users pre provision it? Neither

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Covener
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: With 2.4... once we clear up the socket misbehavior in AcceptFilter none node, its time to reinvent the msi installer. First question before us is host scripting language. One option is utf8 enabled awk and custom

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Covener
I think powershell is fair if we can bail out informatively on pre 2008 R2. * so they can go grab powershell that is

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-14 Thread Tim Bannister
On 14 Jul 2012, at 03:31, William A Rowe Jr wrote: Another option with one downside is to script the install using PowerShell. It was introduced to all installations in Vista and 2008 R2 server. I dont care about EOL'ed XP users needing to provision it, but what is the group concensus

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-14 Thread Gregg Smith
On 7/13/2012 7:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: I dont care about EOL'ed XP users needing to provision it, but what is the group concensus about having 2008 (original release) users pre provision it? Neither XP or 2003 are EOL'd, not till April 2014 IIRC.

Re: Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-14 Thread Gregg Smith
On 7/14/2012 9:35 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: On 7/13/2012 7:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: I dont care about EOL'ed XP users needing to provision it, but what is the group concensus about having 2008 (original release) users pre provision it? Neither XP or 2003 are EOL'd, not till April 2014

Scripting for a windows installer

2012-07-13 Thread William A Rowe Jr
With 2.4... once we clear up the socket misbehavior in AcceptFilter none node, its time to reinvent the msi installer. First question before us is host scripting language. One option is utf8 enabled awk and custom dll's as in the 2.2 package. Another option with one downside is to script