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

[Tomás Abad]

   Hello to everybody,

On 18/07/12 10:24, Tomás Abad wrote:
> 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. ;)

   I'm near to finish the changes to adapt the NSIS script for to
generate both installers, one of them for 32 bits (x86) platforms and
another for 64 bits (x64) platforms.

   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?

      b) Should the new installer uninstall any previous FusionInventory
         Agent of the same architecture existent in the system before to
         do the installation?

   In my opinion, only one FusionInventory Agent should be installed in
a system, but I may be wrong.

   Best regards.

-- 
Tomas Abad
Ingeniero de Sistemas / Systems Engineer