Hi friends, > rl201 wrote: > > (...) > >> This is an interesting idea - I would like to make a further suggestion >> that it might be possible to tag packages to wait until a process has >> finished before installing. >> >> Downside: WPKG installation will hang until the process finishes. >> >> Upside: We don't irritate users by terminating their programs and losing >> their data. >> >> I have four layers of 'priority' in my packages: >> 900 ish - OS service packs >> 700 ish - "Big" applications (Word, Office, AutoCAD) >> 500 ish - "Big" application service packs (Office SP3, AutoCAD SP1) >> 300 ish - "small" applications (PDF creator, notetab) >> >> I would think that waiting until (for example) word has finished running >> before attempting to patch office to SP3 would be a good thing. It might >> prevent (say) PDF creator from being installed but that's what >> priorities >> are for. >> >> So, a tag like >> <process action='kill'>winword.exe</process> >> would cause all instances of winword.exe to be terminated before the >> 'install' commands were carried out but a tag like >> <process action='wait'>winword.exe</process> >> would cause WPKG execution to come to a halt until all windows.exe >> instances had terminated. >> >> Any thoughts? > > Sounds good. > Are we able to list/kill processes with JScript though? > > On XP we could run an external "taskkill", but on 2000? > > I tried to find out if JScript is capable of manipulating processes, but > didn't find much info. Perhaps I didn't search long enough though.
I just use pskill from sysinternals for this - please have a look here http://wpkg.org/index.php/Firefox#Firefox_with_extensions_and_default_profile for an example. Best regards, Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
