On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yeah, the full installer is a chunky 197MB. However, if you run the 3MB > bootstrapper on a user's PC, it will download only what it needs to > bring them up to 3.5 from an earlier version, assuming they have > broadband. Also I don't know how the author distributes his application, > but most people I know would build an installer including the framework, > put it on a network drive at the user's site and install on the > workstations as needed. So why would the users all have to be > downloading the framework in this case? If he's building an > off-the-shelf application then presumably it comes on CD, so put the > installer on that. The only place I can see it being a major issue is if > you were in a web-only distribution model. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- I may get to see just what it takes when we go ahead with a new WPF app for delivery sometime late summer early fall. they are still getting the requirements down on it and have been doing so since ohhhhhh Sept. of 07. It was going to be a web app and then it was going to be a WPF app and now because one part of is coudl be exposed for customers we are going to do the whole blasted thing in web again. But if .... Only time will tell :) the way I read it the author, dude, does his installs via the internet so the CD disk is not an easy thing. Putting it on a locked down workstation is another JOY that he has to deal with that is part of his frustration but we all know it so we don't write about it. The 300 mb was the full blown SDK which is great for debuging on a server or workstation in the field. I love it. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
