All paches in 1 shot

[Virindi]

Right. Wget for windows is pretty nice. The only downside to it vs the iOpus thing is that the iOpus downloader gives you a very obvious "status bar" while downloading. Wget runs in the command window, so it's not so obvious.

I downloaded wget from here. The interesting thing with this version is that he compressed it with UPX, so instead of a 300k .exe, it's just over 100k. So, it is considerably smaller than the iOpus program.

The one thing I thought would be interesting if GreenMachine switched to wGet instead of iOpus is that he could do something like this on the commandline:

wget -u "XPCreate June 11 2004" http://www.blahblah.com/

.. and then the server logs would record that as the user agent/browser version.. so he could see what percentage of users were using outdated/current versions of XPCreate.

One other thing I just thought of that he might want to impliment in the future would be a "version check" (if the user has DLAUTO=yes enabled).

It could go fetch a text file at a url like:

http://www.domain.com/VERSION

and then inside the VERSION file could be something really simple like:

1.13

Then XPCreate could compare it's current version (variable) with whatever version is in the text file, and if there is a newer version available, it could display a quick notice in bright yellow or something noticeable, telling the user that there is an update available.

Blah blah blah, I'm rambling here so I'll stop

-V

[Ice M.]

Outside of XPcreate I have sometimes problems with Iopus downloader. It seems, that he shortens the name of the downloaded file, while the extension of the file remains correct.

Ice M.

[GreenMachine]

@Jjazz: Thanks for the link, the msiextract looks interesting. WGet is OK, but iOpus is easy, and is working fine for me now, If it ain't broken ... (don't fix it). The mssecure.xml contains all the info for MBSA and HFNetChk. It's place is in the analyzing of installations, not creating them, but there are certainly many ways in which it could be used.

@Virindi: Those are good ideas ... but don't really add to the functionality of the final creation: they just make it "easier" for the user. I did, once upon a time, have a notion of current/outdated version, and an "Update XPCREATE" option in a, heaven forbid, menu. For the moment, the current version seems "rich" enough.

@Ice M.: The problems arise because iOpus will only save in 8.3 file name format.

Your ideas, even if often bruskly rejected, are more than welcome. Keep them coming!