> reading Paul's "instsvc and ServerMode" got me thinking whether we even
> need the `instsvc` executable? The installer can install the services
> directly and for batch files we can use PowerShell and the New-Service
> etc. cmdlets. This will save some kB from the package. And also it will
>
> > reading Paul's "instsvc and ServerMode" got me thinking whether we
> > even need the `instsvc` executable? The installer can install the
> > services directly and for batch files we can use PowerShell and the
> > New-Service etc. cmdlets. This will save some kB from the package. And
> > also
Hi *,
reading Paul's "instsvc and ServerMode" got me thinking whether we even
need the `instsvc` executable? The installer can install the services
directly and for batch files we can use PowerShell and the New-Service
etc. cmdlets. This will save some kB from the package. And also it will
remove
17.09.2015 16:23, Paul Reeves wrote:
> The installer calls instsvc and instsvc includes all the code we need to
> un/install services. And instsvc is only 250Kb. So I don't see a big win in
> terms of reducing the size of the installation package. And personally, I use
> instsvc.exe a lot on
On Thursday 17 September 2015 16:03:09 Jiří Činčura wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> reading Paul's "instsvc and ServerMode" got me thinking whether we even
> need the `instsvc` executable? The installer can install the services
> directly and for batch files we can use PowerShell and the New-Service
> etc.
>> I use instsvc a lot. It is simple, small and does the job. Why drop
>> it and replace it with something that's probably more complicated
>> to use?
>
> What do you use it for?
On my development machine I have several different versions of
Firebird (2.1, 2.5, 3.0 when I find the time to test it
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015, at 16:23, Paul Reeves wrote:
> The installer calls instsvc and instsvc includes all the code we need to
> un/install services. And instsvc is only 250Kb. So I don't see a big win
> in
> terms of reducing the size of the installation package. And personally, I
> use
>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015, at 18:33, Stefan Heymann wrote:
> instsvc is very helpful to install, uninstall, start and stop the
> various services for software tests.
So is `sc` or Xxx-Service cmdlets. As a benefit you can use the same
commands no matter what you're managing.
> On customer machines
