[wpkg-users] User GUI for WPKG-GP

[heiko.helmle at horiba.com]

Hello again,

nevermind my previous question, i actually found it myself.

I really like the little tray gui. A few questions on the approach:

Using a special XML with just the version brings a few little problems:

* it ignores changes to profiles and hosts
* it ignores any changes that actually depend on advanced mechanisms of 
package matching (architecture, dependencies, extended matches) that may 
change in updated packages.

what would you think of - instead of generating a special file and parsing 
that - just leave the package matching mechanics up to wpkg.js - that 
would mean:

* modifying wpkg-gp to be able to execute wpkg.js in Query-Mode (for 
example 'cscript /NoLogo /E:Jscript !SCRIPTPATH! /synchronize /query:uI' 
will output a list of all packages wpkg will update or install on the next 
run - this is the statement i use on my little wpkg-notification 
batchfile)
* then communicate that list to wpkg-gp-client to display it.
* bonus points if the resulting list could be filtered for packages you 
don't want the user to be nagged with.

That way you eliminated the need for a special file and the extra step of 
generating it. And you don't have to maintain the logic for determining 
the update list because wpkg.js already does that anyway. 

And you still wouldn't need user permissions on the wpkg share because 
wpkg-gp is doing the query.

What's you opinion?

Best Regards
 Heiko



From:   heiko.helmle at horiba.com
To:     Nils Thiele <it.service.kultur at uni-hamburg.de>
Cc:     "wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org" <wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org>
Date:   09.09.2016 08:59
Subject:        Re: [wpkg-users] User GUI for WPKG-GP
Sent by:        "wpkg-users" <wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org>



Hello Nils, 

just a stupid question: Did you merge the bugfixes that went into 
wpkg-gp-18b1 into your fork? there were two fixes, one was kinda 
important... 

I'm asking because i'm obviously not capable of reading github properly :) 


Best Regards 
  
 Heiko 



From:        Nils Thiele <it.service.kultur at uni-hamburg.de> 
To:        "wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org" <wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org> 
Date:        07.09.2016 14:36 
Subject:        Re: [wpkg-users] User GUI for WPKG-GP 
Sent by:        "wpkg-users" <wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org> 



Hey,
I have just uploaded my latest release to the github page (0.9.6.6):
https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp-client/releases

I think i have ironed out most bugs and disabled the debug console 
window because of this.

This release depends on the latest version of my wpkg-gp modification:
https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp/releases/tag/v0.17.11

Both programs are tested on several systems in our organisation (windows 
7 to windows 10) and even different language settings,
but i should still mention that this shouldnt be used in production 
right away and you should test it in your environment before that.

Check out the wiki on github: 
https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp-client/wiki
I should have added all the necessary information to get this running on 
your systems.

If you encounter any errors please report them on github.

Hope to get some feedback on this soon :)

Best Regards,
Nils


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