kevin Wrote: > Hmm, possibly not. On Windows, it's typically cleanest to just stop the > server, use add/remove programs to remove the server, then use the .exe > installer to install the new build.
I've automated the download and upgrade of the Windows Server from the zip file and haven't figured out or been told of a way to automate the installation using the .exe installer. If there's a way, through command-line switches, a response file, or something else, then I'd love to hear about it. It would probably be much simpler. > Using the ZIP, if you've used the .exe in the past, might cause issues > when it comes to uninstalling... It might also not actually upgrade > anything, if slim.exe and slimserver.exe are running for example, they > will not be overwritten and therefore not updated to the latest > version. Understood. The uninstall may not be perfect, but will likely be good enough to unregister the service. I stop the service first before overwriting the files. I don't use slimerver.exe. > On Windows, slim.exe is pretty much the entire server. It's a compiled > perl interpreter + slimserver source code all in one... So overwriting > all of the perl data in the Slim directory won't really make any > difference here anyway. That's never been completely clear to me before, but probably a discussion for another thread. It seems that at least _some_ of them are necessary and external to slim.exe. For instance, the database modules in CPAN/DBD. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
