[wpkg-users] wpkg-users Digest, Vol 64, Issue 7

[Antony Awaida]

Hi Heiko:

The above works great. A couple of questions:

Curl seems to open a terminal. If the user closes the terminal, the
transfer stops. Is there a way to get rid of the terminal? Also, I
have not been able to display the progress bar. Any ideas?

I am using the curl command on Windows 7.

Thanks,
Antony

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>> What about .exe? Does anyone have experience with installing .exe from a
>> remote server? what is the "install cmd" to install a .exe from a remote
>> server?
>>
>
> I'm doing this for quite some time - I'm using a local installed version
> of curl to fetch the exe to a known location and run it from there. You
> can't run an executable from a http-location like you can from a
> SMB-Share.
>
> A
>
>
> see for example this snippet:
>
>         <variable name="URL" value="
> http://xxx/editor/notepadpp/npp.%version%.Installer.exe" />
>         <variable name="target" value="%TEMP%\npp-install.exe" />
>
>         <install cmd='"%TOOLDIR%\curl.exe" -f -s -o "%target%" "%url%"'/>
>         <install cmd='TASKKILL /F /IM "notepad++.exe"'>
>                 <exit code='128'/>
>         </install>
>         <install cmd='"%target%" /S' />
>
>         <install cmd='"%COMSPEC%" /C del "%target%"'/>
>
>
>
> also I think recent wpkg releases include an external download script that
> you could use which includes checksumming the download.
>
> and there's the <download> tag but it's buggy (no fault of WPKG - it's an
> awkward workaround around WSH deficiencies)
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