On 05/03/2012 17:03, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) wrote:
> Often corporate policies restrict internet access in such a way where asking 
> each development machine to download the packages is actually very painful. 
> Local caches (which should be accessible directly on the target server _or_ a 
> local network share _or_ on a local web server) should be supported for 
> enterprise deployments.
>
> I'm not saying that download and verification provides absolutely no value 
> because that functionality provides value to the average user that is 
> installing software to their home computer. What I'm saying is that when 
> there is an IT department between you and management of your machine then 
> features like download and verification only provide marginal value because 
> IT departments often want to be in more control.

There was a rather lengthy discussion about this wrt driver development 
at http://www.osronline.com/cf.cfm?PageURL=showlists.cfm?list=NTDEV a 
few days ago.

-- 
Bruce Cran

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