On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:49:59 -0500, "Stephen Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Rick Stahl is mentioned in a bog on deployment issues with .net 3.5. Oh > yeah and not nicely.
The criticism looks to me as if it is levelled against someone that replied to a posting Rick made about the size of .NET 3.5 and the problems this causes in rolling out applications, not Rick himself. > Many users are naturally suspicious of anything Microsoft. That'll be why they're all using Linux then. Oh wait .... Yeah, the full installer is a chunky 197MB. However, if you run the 3MB bootstrapper on a user's PC, it will download only what it needs to bring them up to 3.5 from an earlier version, assuming they have broadband. Also I don't know how the author distributes his application, but most people I know would build an installer including the framework, put it on a network drive at the user's site and install on the workstations as needed. So why would the users all have to be downloading the framework in this case? If he's building an off-the-shelf application then presumably it comes on CD, so put the installer on that. The only place I can see it being a major issue is if you were in a web-only distribution model. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
