Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-05-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > As of bootup and logon delay, what about this one ("offline mode")? Seems quite well. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-30 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Marco Gaiarin schrieb: > Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski > In chel di` si favelave... > >> Some may want to install on startup as well. > > Mmmhhh... someone may want to 'execute something' on startup, i think > that everyone want to install the software, when they are installed can > be a detail...

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > Some may want to install on startup as well. Mmmhhh... someone may want to 'execute something' on startup, i think that everyone want to install the software, when they are installed can be a detail... So executing -pre and -post script on

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-30 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Marco Gaiarin schrieb: > Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski > In chel di` si favelave... > >> As a discussion here on the list. > > Ok, as a 'non-developer' i say: > > 1) The 'connectivity trouble' will be finally solved, i think, only if > we move from 'install on startup' to 'install on shutdown', i

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > As a discussion here on the list. Ok, as a 'non-developer' i say: 1) The 'connectivity trouble' will be finally solved, i think, only if we move from 'install on startup' to 'install on shutdown', i think as: a) WPKGClient starts, check

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Marco Gaiarin schrieb: > Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski > In chel di` si favelave... > >> I need comments, comments, comments... > > ...as discussione or directly on-page? As a discussion here on the list. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ---

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > I need comments, comments, comments... ...as discussione or directly on-page? -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Rainer Meier schrieb: (...) > No. I don't think this is the way to go. We are building up a > state-of-the-art software deployment environment and then we should > install one of the core components using a "hacky" cmd script? NO! > > Probably switching to NSIS could be an alternative too. Jus

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rainer Meier In chel di` si favelave... > You could even upgrade WPKG (server side) without changing the client > side at all. ...and i'm doing exactly that! ;) > However currently it's clearly a resource problem. ...i'm really sorry to be of no help in that... ;((( -- dott. Marco

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > + libraries which are in that MSI package. ...that have to be version-checked and registered, i suppose. :( > Yes, it should work, but will be "hacky". Indeed. :( -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi Marco, > I'm still using 0.90, and surely i don't try to upgrade using the > procedure explained on: > > http://wpkg.org/WPKG You could even upgrade WPKG (server side) without changing the client side at all. > PS: and if we simply throw away the .msi installer and prepare a simple >

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Marco Gaiarin schrieb: (...) > PS: and if we simply throw away the .msi installer and prepare a simple > batch script that do the job, copy files, setting registry keys, ... > In another way: what do the .msi installer on a *upgrade* process? Can > be substituted with a simple cmd script? + l

[wpkg-users] Installer upgrade trouble...

2008-04-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Tomasz Chmielewski In chel di` si favelave... > I'm not sure how easy (or hard) to implement it is. Mee too... > Surely, it will need some changes and should be fully supported in the > future (without "hacks"). > But I can't tell right now if an upgrade from 1.2.x to a newer version