> > Not very strong reasons, but there are some > > * With a 64bit version I can get rid of all the path magic I have > to do for deployment > > (to differenciate between %PROGRAMFILES% and %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%) > Shorter scripts mean less errors. > > A bit offtopic, but still important: > > With deployments, never assume you know the architecture or > environment your script runs in. Never. It will get back to you one day. ;-)
of course not. But you can assume that if your script detects the architecture and decides to install 32bit software on 32bit OS and 64bit software on 64bit OS, then you don't need to bother about %PROGRAMFILES(x86)% later on. Even when your script happens to accidently run on WOW64, you will get the wrong arch installed, but you still don't have to bother about %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%. (Assuming your script runs _always_ on the same arch environment on the same machine). If your deployment scripts don't run in a consistent environment, you might have different problems anyway :) Best Regards Heiko
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