[THIN] Re: One of the Apps running on Citrix has no install program
- From: "Tim Mangan" <tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
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 user's "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
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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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