"cleitet at gmail.com" <cleitet at gmail.com> writes: [...] > - Have an easy to use interface for configuration that makes it easy to > distribute the configuration to many clients (still trying and failing on > this) We use a git repository to distribute the cmd scripts and the WPKG files, works pretty well ;-) > - Optionally run in system tray and check for updated packages at regular > intervals. Inform users about updates and prompt them with alternatives. > (the platform is designed to be able do this) Here, we do not want to have messages in system tray. Our users get bored by such ToolTips. > - Hopefully be able to install software at shutdown with feedback to user > (this is not easily achievable AFAIK, as Windows does not have an API for > giving information to users at shutdown) We run WPKG client at shutdown to avoid a delay at startup, our users are more inclined to have a shutdown delay rather than a startup one. I wonder how the windows "install updates and shutdown" works, seems that we can register[1] an application to block the shutdown process. The user can force the shutdown to occur, if so, the client can force a run at the next startup if it was canceled by the user (like the windows update agent IIRC). I'm not familiar with windows programming, and honestly, I do not want to become... ;-) Regards. Footnotes: [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5217246/how-to-delay-shutdown-and-run-a-process-in-window-service/5217364#5217364 -- Daniel Dehennin RAIP de l'Orne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20110404/362d024d/attachment.pgp> |