I told you I'm a baaad programmer, I'm not even running SP1. This application hasn't had to have any changes in years, and since we aren't doing any new development in VFP things kinda slipped. So I'm looking at applying the latest SP to my development environment, and just to be safe I'll go ahead and rebuild the application to. So if I send out the Inno Setup exe after all this, everything should get patched?
Regards Rodney > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Schummer > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Using Inno Setup to deploy VFP runtimes > > >> Rick ...over to you!<< > > Thanks Dave! > > My documentation on running various versions of VFP 9 is for the > development > environment, not production. It sounds like Rodney is looking to update > production environments. > > >> I have an Inno Setup installer that just does the runtime. If I > patch my > environment and rebuild the setup, will that be good enough to get the > users > of the app up to date?<< > > In the case of production, Inno Setup is a terrific way to update the > runtimes. I also have a setup of the runtimes so I can install just > those > files on a workstation. > > One recommendation I make is to keep the version of VFP you build with > and > the version of the runtimes in sync. If you compile with VFP 9 SP1, > deliver > the SP1 runtimes. I have read stories from other VFP developers and > even > experienced it myself where the version of Service Packs is not a > problem, > and maybe this is true for those folks. I don't know of any technical > limitations other than new command tokens in the compiled code not > working > in older runtimes. But I have experienced strange unexplained > performance of > my code and it was corrected with the proper version of the runtimes. > > If you have apps that are compiled in different versions of VFP and > they > have to run on the same computers then just dump the runtimes into the > application folder. It is simple to do this with Inno Setup. > > > Rick > White Light Computing, Inc. > > www.whitelightcomputing.com > www.swfox.net > www.rickschummer.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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/e1c9e5d21dfa814c98a2f6759523141202cdf...@tnmail.mfc.corp.mckee.com ** 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.
