What you want is HOW TO SET UP A NETWORKED WIN32 ACTIVESTATE PERL See http://www.cleartool.com/interop/NetASPerl.html
for instructions on how to do this. I suspect the patch would not be small as todo.pl would not be associated with the perl shell. Godfrey > > > Geert Stappers wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:53:50AM +0100, oliver wrote: >> >> >>>Hi >>> >>>I was wondering if it really is nessacery to fully install perl into the >>>C drive soley for the purpose of installing the various applications. >>> >>>I'm not saying not to use perl, but is there no way to use perl from the >>>Z mapped drive? (I do know there might be some issues with perl not >>>beeing on the C:\ which I think can't be right. It's just not sane :) >>>but who knows. >>> >>>Primarly because I don't want all my users to have an active perl >>>install on their system. Also it's kind of dull to install 60mb worth of >>>software to be used for those 5 minutes of software install. >>>Automatically uninstalling afterwards also seems dumb. >>> >>>Secondly it becomes really useless afterwards, I mean, we have a network >>>share with a whole bunch of nice packages, but a simple doubleclick on a >>>bat file doesn't install the package. (Because of perl errors). >>> >>>My proposal would be to have perl live in z:\perl and have all scripts >>>use that version. The bat files include a 'header' file that set's >>>enviroment variables correctly so that perl can be run from Z:\perl. >>> >>>This would also make it possible to simply install a package by running >>>the script file for it. >>> >>> >> >>I think the question is: >> >> When a patch is supplied, will it be excepted? >> > Accepted or expected? : ) > > Accepted, I don't know. If the sysadmin wants perl on every install, put > perl.bat in your base.bat, it it's not, don't put perl.bat in your > base.bat : ) > > Expected, it might come to a supprise I'm sure, but does it matter for > the end result? You'll still get a fully unattended workable win > installation. > >> >> >>>oliver >>> >>> >> >>Happy New Year >>Geert Stappers >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > unattended-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
