Hi Soeren,

Wasn't meant as critics, was meant as a general statement, comparing
diffrent methods of installations.

See
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=MSI+repackaging+support&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=OIEdkOREAHA.60%40cppssbbsa04&rnum=2

I am quite shure, in your special case what you did is what was the best.
Especially as you solved your problem.

> I'd like to know what Network Rendering has to do with automatically
deploying an application over a network ...

I can tell that to you :-). Before you can render in a network you need to
install POV-Ray on each of those machines. And why do that "manually" if its
sooo easy done automatically? However you may still need a way to bring
those files on all the PC's.

>, btw. What you're probably doing is just letting the Wise Installer run in
silent mode.
To be honest I did never even know that this would work. maybe I don't
needed that ever.

Going away from POV-Ray, my statement was more general saying "How can
anyone be shure that a "repacked file " Will work under all circumstances?"
(see Link at top).

Thats not a question "How good" you can use all those repackaging-tools, the
question is just "How good can you know what needs to be done while the
installation". I saw those problems Chris told you about and thought the
article I read in the newsgroup.

It wasn't personal but I am just working with these installation things, so
I saw a chance to produce myself a bit :-))).

By the way ...  http://www.it-berater.org/download/down.pl?file=31  (Hope
you have XP Prof. somewhere :-).
Try this one and tell me :-) which installer we used in silent mode.

have fun
--Theo

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"Soeren Kuklau" <use### [at] chuckerrasdinet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Theo Gottwald * wrote on 22 Jul 2003 02:33  Uhr:
> > People like to make things ten times. I cannot recommend that to you,
> > Soeren.
>
> I'm more of a lazy person, trust me.
>
> > Therefore we (from Winrobots see www.winrobots.com) just take this
> > installer to install the programm automatically. No MSI etc. is needed.
> > Why use complicated technology to make a "repackaging" if its not
> > necessary because everything (Installation/Deeinstallation) is already
> > there and tested from those people who made the program?
>
> Because Windows 2000 Server works with MSI. That's why. The only other
> choice offered is ZAP, which I wouldn't want to use even when forced to.
>
> I'd like to know what Network Rendering has to do with automatically
> deploying an application over a network, btw. What you're probably doing
> is just letting the Wise Installer run in silent mode. I could of course
> create a script that does something similar, but that sounds way more
> complicated to me than just going the route I took.
>
> As a sidenode, I think I fixed the problem.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> -- 

>
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