[wpkg-users] Autodesk Suite forks another install process; exits 256

[Stefan Pendl]

Am 02.08.2012 23:04, schrieb Sebastian Elsner:
> Hi,
>
> I was also fighting with Maya for a long time. Maya runs a Setup.exe
> which forks another setup.exe which fork the msiexecs. finally I ended
> up writing a .vbs script to watch the second setup.exe which seems to
> block at least for maya. Tomorrow when I am back in the office I can
> send it to the list.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sebastian
>
> P.S. Autodesk product installers are hell.
>

All mixed installers are hell, since they are never written for simple 
deployment utilities >:-(

One could use TASKLIST in a command script on WinXP and above too, but 
VBS seems to be more straight forward.


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