[wpkg-users] Fatal Error - Missing White-Space

[Rainer Meier]

Hi James,

beadlej wrote:
> You guys are amazing! Thank you so much. It was the editor that I was using.
> I reverted back to the original packages.xml file and copied exactly what
> you gave me, but I did it in notepad. It worked like a charm. What is the
> editor that you guys use? Or is it just notepad? :)

Personally I prefer Eclipse using the built-in XML tools. WPKG 1.1.0 also comes
with a bunch of XSD files:
<http://wpkg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wpkg/wpkg/stable/1.1/xsd/>

Using them allows your editor to display help and context assistants. Using a
decent editor allows you to build and verify your package definitions.

But basically every editor should do the trick. Probably your one used a strange
encoding (UTF-16?) - who knows. But maybe cscript did not support it. As WPKG is
using libraries provided by Microsoft to parse the XML files it's unlikely that
I could fix it. So I recommend you to check the settings of your editor.

As eclipse is quite a huge tool and needs some time to get on with I recommend
an easy editor like PSPad (free), Notepad++ (free) or UltraEdit (commercial).
All of them provide syntax highlighting and different encodings.

Actually the file I sent you was quickly edited in PSPad.



> The %software% wasn't defined to I had to put in the actual path. Can you
> tell me how to define that in the xml file?

If %SOFTWARE% is not defined in your package it will execute
"\ccsetup219_slim.exe" which refers to the root directory of the path where
wpkg.js is executed (have a look at the logs).

As I wrote I recommend to run wpkg.js using WPKG client (never run "cscript
wpkg.js /synchronize" manually) and start WPKG by running the WPKG windows service.

Only if you run it by Windows service the variables defined using wpkginst will
be applied/set.

If you like to run wpkg.js manually you either have to define %SOFTWARE% in your
global machine environment (Windows settings) or use a wrapper script.

Have a look at the run-wpkg.cmd script I've attached. It sets the variables
before it invokes wpkg.
NOTE: I had to rename it to "run-wpkg.txt" to make it go through the mail server
without being filtered.



> I will try to figure out the installations with the other programs that I
> want to install. Thank you all for helping me out with this. I have been
> trying to get this working for the past week.

WPKG just becomes fun if it's running properly for a while and when it starts to
save some time. Instead of running from machine to machine you just add it to
the software repository and let WPKG deploy it.


br,
Rainer
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