Jiri Cincura wrote:
Scott Price wrote:
It is often very handy for sys admins to have an XCopy deployable type
application, as it makes copying to client machines logging in much
simpler then running installers, when the users don't have the rights
to, etc.
This is probably OT, but this isn't true. XCopy is good for already running
applications. But for sys admins and distributing apps. to user is MSI
package probably the best way. Especially if you have windows network.
I am sorry Jiri, but that just isn't true. The reality is there are
often many large corporates that do not have a single network OS type,
but often have mixed networks, and the Windows Installer is only really
a few years old in comparison to the problems many users have been
facing for years.
For many years many sys ops had to find ways around the limitations of
locked down networks, and I can guarantee that one of the most favoured
is XCopy, which is why Microsoft to tend to use the XCopy words and .NET
together quite regularly.
Plus, not all companies upgrade to the latest MS offering all the time.
The cost can be quite ludicrous if an OS changes every 18 months like it
did from 98/ME/XP. Three upgrades in 4.5 years? That would definitely
take a bite out of the corporate IT budget, let alone additional across
the board implementation and troubleshooting, because that would likely
cost more then the new licences to be fair.
XCopy type deployments where clients don't require writes to the
registry in order to be ready to run is very highly praised by many sys
admins.
It is one of the reasons we had used Delphi a lot, we could build
applications which just required a single exe distribution, no
additional dll's unless they were desperately needed and not part of the
standard offerings of the clients windows installation. Extremely
simple to deploy a single exe, config files, etc in that XCopy way.
Kind regards,
Scott :)
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