Hello Guillaume, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 18/07/2012 08:38, Tomás Abad a écrit : > >> Hello Guillaume, >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Guillaume Rousse >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Le 18/07/2012 01:25, Tomás Abad a écrit : >>> >>>>>> d) Is there any problem if I make use of Strawberry Perl May 2012 >>>>>> v5.16.0.1 32bits to build an installer for Microsoft Windows >>>>>> 32bits platforms and Strawberry Perl May 2012 v5.16.0.1 64bits to >>>>>> build another installer for Microsoft Windows 64bits platforms? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The 64bits version of the agent is unlikely to works out-of-the box, >>>>> mainly because of registry issues, but that's the way to go IMHO. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I'll try to do only a FusionInventory Agent installer for both >>>> platforms. The installer will install Perl 32 bits or 64 bits based on >>>> the >>>> target Windows platform. >>> >>> >>> Distinct 32 and 64 bits installers would avoid having to download a >>> bloated >>> binary, where only half of the payload would be used in any scenario... >> >> >> You are right Guillaume but, in this case, the increase in size of >> the installer can be, as much, of 80 MBytes (without take into account >> any compression). These increase is not so much and allows a better >> and easy management and use, I think. > > A +100% size increase is not something I'd call 'not so much', especially > for automated deployment scenario. > > And beyond technical issues, the choice of which architecture to use should > be left to end user, instead of being hardcoded in a piece of code. We're > targeting sysadmins, not your (or my) grandmother, meaning people supposed > knowledgful enough to make the decision that fit their need. Including > installing the 32bits version on 64bits platform, for whatever reason, if > needed.
It is Ok. There will be an installer by platform. My (and your) grandfathers will be happy, and the system administrators too, I hope. ;) Best regards. _______________________________________________ Fusioninventory-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
