Does anyone have any ideas or workarounds for the inability to silently update or uninstall an AIR app? Allow me to explain..
The documentation for redistributing the AIR runtime and silently installing an AIR application says that you *cannot* silently upgrade an application because of a possible security risk. Fair enough, but when bundling the AIR runtime installer and my AIR app embedded in another installer, *I* know if the version I'm about to install is newer or not. So I'd like to update the existing AIR app or uninstall it and then install the new version. I can think of a few ways: 1.) Don't use the silent installer. This seems like a bad idea; I want to force an installation directory and do an automated installation for enterprise deployments. 2.) Delete the existing application and then run the silent installer. This doesn't seem like a great idea. 3.) Convince Adobe to allow for silent upgrades or uninstalls. [ Let me make my argument for allowing for silent upgrades or uninstalls: People doing deployments know what they want, even in the case where its an old version. ] Does anyone have any additional ideas other than the 3 above?
