Re: Specific WIN32 helpers and fs module

Hi Clemens,

Il 11.51 02/09/2002 PsychoTekk .de ha scritto:
>hi Guido,
>just an idea that came to my mind when i read "if we find that
>Squid gets a good coverage on the win32 platform": many nt admins
>especially in companies with smaller networks might have their
>problems installing squid and would like to just run a usual
>installer (i remember that i had my problems too when i first
>installed squid 2.3.stable4 on my w2k machine).
>what about distributing SquidNT binaries as an MSInstaller?
>...just like Apache for win32 - the installation process
>should ask for and commit the modifications in
>squid.conf that are necessary to install and run squid
>(the cache dir, nt servicename etc., then a batch or .cmd
>file that calls "squid -z" and "squid -i [-n servicename]"
>to create the cache subdirs and installs squid as an nt service...
>
>Visual Studio Installer 1.1 (MSI) is an addon for VisualStudio
>that packs .msi files:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/vsi11/download.asp
>
>some days ago i tried to pack the pre11 binaries that way,
>the first problem that occured was that there are some
>default folders that MSInstallers install the stuff to
>(such like "program files" etc.), thus c:/squid/ would
>be a problem for these installation processes.
>
>furtheron i'm not sure yet how the installer configures
>the .conf files and then runs the commands, but i'm sure
>there is an option for that in the VSI packer.
>i downloaded it some days ago and will have a closer look
>at that soon.
>
>it would be easy to include controls such as
>start, restart (parse squid.conf again) and shutdown
>from the startmenu shell using MSInstallers...
>
>well, just an idea, and maybe the use isn't worth the effort
>but i thought i'd share my thoughts ;)
>
>regards,
> Clemens

Sure, this can be a good idea.
I don't have enough time for this work, so if You want to make it, You are
welcome.

My main effort is now on SquidNT stability, performance and features.

I think that a good program with a bad setup is better then a bad program
with a good setup ...

  Regards

Guido

> > For now I'll think we keep these in ports/win32/helpers if that isn't
> > to much of a hassle for you. Might change my mind if we find that
> > Squid gets a good coverage on the win32 platform.
>
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Received on Mon Sep 02 2002 - 07:32:00 MDT