Dave wrote:
> Question for Paul: Is LaunchGuard a product for sale or just something
> developed for your own in-house needs? Can Wil share with me some pitfalls
> to avoid, etc?
No, currently, we don't sell it independently - it just comes with all our
latest applications - although it was designed as a general tool to 'guard'
anything. For example, Wil now uses it to copy up the latest builds _to_ our
testing server.
In fact, LaunchGuard started as a bunch of batch files that I wrote for our
testers to copy down updated builds _from_ the central testing server so the
developers didn't get blocked out from copying up new 'fixed' builds which
was getting to be a real pain.
But the batch files were a bit fragile and crufty and required setting up by
hand and it occurred to me that our resellers had the same issue (albeit on
a smaller scale) so we got Wil to turn the batch files into a Delphi app and
LaunchGuard sort of 'evolved' from there.
Considering that we spent quite a bit of time perfecting it, I can't really
'give away' that knowledge away beyond describing the technique in general
terms like I have on the Delphi list.
To be honest, I never really considered 'selling' LaunchGuard because I
didn't think there was enough of a market of people who cared about it
enough to justify 'productising' LaunchGuard (writing useful documentation,
etc).
Maybe I was too hasty.
If anyone really is interested enough in LaunchGuard to consider purchasing
it in some form or another, drop me a private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TTFN,
Paul.
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