[wpkg-users] Dealing with localized apps

[K.E.Jones at bton.ac.uk]

Hi folks,

 I've been working on redesigning the amendments I made to WPKG to add
extra checks to the pre/post-install environment. As Rainer suggested
I've now converted them to execute-styled scripts that use Exit Codes to
signal their results but I haven't quite stopped there :-)

 As yet there's no repository of useful scripts for people to use. As I
know a number of my scripts share a lot of code between them instead of
just providing one-shot scripts I've worked on programming a 'framework'
for scripts to make use of independently of WPKG. this should help
simplify any custom checks you want to perform and reduce the
programming needs of WPKG at the same time.

 As part of this I've also documented some ideas about using Windows
Scripting Components and making libraries of re-usable code.

 So far it's working out okay but please treat the code as an 'alpha'
rather than a 'beta' :-)

 The details and code are detailed here,
http://wpkg.org/User_contributed_software#Generic_Library_for_scripted_c
hecks

 I haven't yet got a versioning scheme set up but I will do so :-)

 Please feel free to have a dig around and send me feedback! I'll be
working on adding some of the more complex checks based on WMI queries
as soon as I get the time :-)

 Have fun,

 Keith