[Bug 93] New: 64-bit OS support announcement

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http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93

           Summary: 64-bit OS support announcement
           Product: WPKG Client
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: WPKG Client
        AssignedTo: mangoo at wpkg.org
        ReportedBy: skybeam at users.sourceforge.net
         QAContact: wpkg-users at lists.sourceforge.net


Created an attachment (id=84)
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64-bit enhanced version including 64-bit launch-wrapper

Hi all,

It's me again :-)

I am just about to migrate my infrastructure to Windows Vista x64 when I run
into several problems when using WPKG client with WPKG 1.0-RC4 on Vista x64. I
just decided to fix the problems immediately.

Unfortunately the main problem was that WPKG Client is a 32-bit application and
Microsoft decided that 32-bit applications will be redirected to different
registry keys and folders. As a result it is not possible to directly access
the 64-bit program files and registry keys when run from wpkg client (due to
the fact that the invoked cscript.exe is 32-bit only as well).

To work around this I wrote a wrapper which will invoke a copy of the 64-bit
cmd.exe where the 64-bit cscript.exe can be accessed.

Again: This is a work-around. A clean solution would be if WPKG client would be
a 64-bit application which invokes the 64-bit cscript.exe instead of the 32-bit
version on Windows x64 editions.

So that's what I ask for to be changed. An intermediate solution could be to
write a small 64-bit "launcher" which is run on 64-bit systems to invoke
cscript.exe instead of running it directly from the 32-bit WPKGSrv.exe.

Here's a description of my changes. Files attached.


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