[Fusioninventory-devel] Building the FusionInventory Agent Windows package...

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

2012/7/31 Tomás Abad <tabadgp at gmail.com>:
>    Hello Gonéri,
>
> On 31/07/12 11:05, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
>>>    In this point, a doubt arises me working with x64 platforms. In these
>>> platforms, may be possible to have installed both agents at the same
>>> time but, has it any sense?.
>>>
>>>       a) Should the new installer uninstall any previous FusionInventory
>>>          Agent existent in the system before to do the installation?
>> I don't think it's the goal of an installer. This should be achieved
>> by another tool.
>>
>>>       b) Should the new installer uninstall any previous FusionInventory
>>>          Agent of the same architecture existent in the system before to
>>>          do the installation?
>> Yes IMO, but this should be done by another tool like for the question above.
>
>    Since four days ago, the new installer detect and remove a previous
> agent, launching its uninstall program, before do the installation. This
> approach is used for many others applications and, in my opinion, it is
> the best practice for the FusionInventory Agent.
>
>    After thinking about it a while, I have come to the conclusion that
> has no sense that there are two agents on the same machine.
Yes, your decision make sense and will reduce complexity. In this case,
maybe you can add an option to also drop OCS agent like we do with the
VBS script?

Regards,
-- 
     Gonéri Le Bouder