[wpkg-users] Ideas for features.

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Frank Lee schrieb:
>> How about introducing special types of packages?
> 
> How about introducing a special type of *check*:
> 
> <check type='external' condition='0' path='\\server\share\discfree.bat' 
> value='%SystemDrive% 1GB' />
> 
> i.e. run an external command specified by 'path' with arguments 
> specified by 'value' and consider the return code. If the return code 
> matches the 'condition', the check is successful. (I hypothesize that 
> discfree.bat takes two arguments, a drive and a size, and returns zero 
> if the drive contains at least that amount of free space.)

Other goodie would be checking if a given process is not running already.

For example, if there is a "some_program.exe" process, don't attempt to 
upgrade/install "Some Program" (as it can potentially fail, installer 
can stop a running process without asking the user -> data loss etc.).


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org