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

[Tomás Abad]

On 01/08/12 09:58, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> 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?

   It is a great idea Gonéri!. Really, it is tedious to change from
OCS-NG Agent to FusionInventory Agent in an environment with a high
number of computers.

   It is easy to add a new command line option in the new installer
like, for example, /uninstall-ocsng-agent, to remove a previous OCS-NG
Agent. I think the visual or graphical installation mode should not show
this possibility; it should be a command line possibility.

   I think it is easy and useful but I do not know whether it is
suitable. You decide.

   Best regards.