[THIN] Re: One of the Apps running on Citrix has no install program
- From: "Steve Parr" <sparr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:26:04 +0000 GMT
I don't know Tim that is why I am asking the List. I had stated that as a
possibilty too - all the registry entries may not actually add up to making any
difference..
-----Original Message-----
From: "Tim Mangan" <tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:21:52
To:<thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: One of the Apps running on Citrix has no install program
It sounds like you are just making work for yourself, possibly without
bennefit. If the application install does not touch the registry, or the
logged in users application and settings area (for example for making
shortcuts), then it makes no difference if you are in install mode or not.
A simple msi could just run a cmd script to do the install. This is all you
would need, although a second cmd script to do an uninstall would be nice. Of
course, even an MSI with just those two things will now cause a whole bunch of
stuff to be written to the registry when you install. Is it really needed?
tim
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steve Parr
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:04 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] One of the Apps running on Citrix has no install program
The vendor is lazy and thinks it is not required. They give our Apps group the
program files and they have been copying to workstations and just running that
way. Before letting this run on Citrix would like to take a crack at creating
an install for this
for the purpose of being able to install in change user /install mode so things
get a proper chance to be set up in the mutiuser environment that Citrix\TS is.
What things should I look for to know that the install program will do what it
ideally should for TS\Citrix? I have used an installer program put out by
Caphypon called Advanced Installer. Have run this and created an .msi package
that comes out to about 600 mbs - the program files prior to being compressed
into CAB files is at 1.2 Gbs. Seems to work but not tested under load yet.
According to the vendor there are up to 400 .exe's and many other supporting
files and is reason program files so large in size. This amazes me a bit as the
architecture on the back end is MS SQL so I do not see the need to be so fat on
the client but maybe I just have not been around long enough. Any thoughts
would be appreciated.
Steve Parr
Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing Ltd.
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