First off I would like to say appsonly is great.
On Nov 20, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> a while ago I suggested to add some lines to todo.pl...
>
> elsif ($product_name eq 'Windows Vista (TM) Business') {
> $os = 'vista';
> }
> elsif ($product_name eq 'Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate') {
> $os = 'vista';
> }
>
> ... because otherwise my appsonly script wouldn't have worked on
> Vista.
>
> See
> http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06628.html
>
> The suggested changes were added to the CVS / SVN, but in the
> meantime I
> stumbled upon further product name strings not handled by todo.pl.
>
> Examples:
> Windows (TM) Vista Ultimate
> Windows 7 Ultimate
> Windows 7 Home Premium
> Microsoft Windows Server (R) 2008 Standard
> Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
>
> Because MS makes so many different editions of their products, it's
> very
> difficult to "catch all" in todo.pl
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to do substring instead of exact string
> matches?
>
> Like this:
> $product_name contains "Vista" --> $os = "vista"
> $product_name contains "2008" --> $os = "win2008"
I vote for this approach It seems the most manageable.
> Second idea:
> Change the line
> die "Unrecognized $pn_key: $product_name";
> to
> $os = 'unknown_os';
I also think that it would be reasonable to add the second suggestion
to the sites file
Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for apps only,
Ben
>
> My appsonly script would have no problem with that, but could that
> break
> things for people doing operating system + applications installs?
>
> Regards
> Gerhard
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