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

[Tomás Abad]

   Hello Guillaume,

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Guillaume Rousse
<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 18/07/2012 08:38, Tomás Abad a écrit :
>
>>     Hello Guillaume,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Guillaume Rousse
>> <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 18/07/2012 01:25, Tomás Abad a écrit :
>>>
>>>>>> d) Is there any problem if I make use of Strawberry Perl May 2012
>>>>>> v5.16.0.1 32bits to build an installer for Microsoft Windows
>>>>>> 32bits platforms and Strawberry Perl May 2012 v5.16.0.1 64bits to
>>>>>> build another installer for Microsoft Windows 64bits platforms?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The 64bits version of the agent is unlikely to works out-of-the box,
>>>>>    mainly because of registry issues, but that's the way to go IMHO.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      I'll try to do only a FusionInventory Agent installer for both
>>>> platforms. The installer will install Perl 32 bits or 64 bits based on
>>>> the
>>>> target Windows platform.
>>>
>>>
>>> Distinct 32 and 64 bits installers would avoid having to download a
>>> bloated
>>> binary, where only half of the payload would be used in any scenario...
>>
>>
>>     You are right Guillaume but, in this case, the increase in size of
>> the installer can be, as much, of 80 MBytes (without take into account
>> any compression). These increase is not so much and allows a better
>> and easy management and use, I think.
>
> A +100% size increase is not something I'd call 'not so much', especially
> for automated deployment scenario.
>
> And beyond technical issues, the choice of which architecture to use should
> be left to end user, instead of being hardcoded in a piece of code. We're
> targeting sysadmins, not your (or my) grandmother, meaning people supposed
> knowledgful enough to make the decision that fit their need. Including
> installing the 32bits version on 64bits platform, for whatever reason, if
> needed.

   It is Ok. There will be an installer by platform. My (and your)
grandfathers will be happy, and the system administrators too, I hope.
;)

   Best regards.