Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF61FD305 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:23:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2447 invoked by uid 500); 1 Aug 2012 16:23:27 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 2389 invoked by uid 500); 1 Aug 2012 16:23:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: dev@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 2379 invoked by uid 99); 1 Aug 2012 16:23:26 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:23:26 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [64.202.165.36] (HELO smtpauth20.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.165.36) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:23:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 28760 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2012 16:22:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (76.252.112.72) by smtpauth20.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.36) with ESMTP; 01 Aug 2012 16:22:57 -0000 Message-ID: <501957E3.2070109@rowe-clan.net> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:22:59 -0700 From: "William A. Rowe Jr." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: Scripting for a windows installer References: <820d42c2-1570-4794-9e0c-81e505c139c4@blur> <5002488B.5010804@gknw.net> <50024A2F.8020307@gknw.net> <50183A81.402@rowe-clan.net> In-Reply-To: <50183A81.402@rowe-clan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 7/31/2012 1:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 7/14/2012 9:42 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: >> On 7/14/2012 9:35 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: >>> On 7/13/2012 7:31 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: >>>> I dont care about EOL'ed XP users needing to provision it, but what is the group >>>> concensus about having 2008 (original release) users pre provision it? >>> >>> Neither XP or 2003 are EOL'd, not till April 2014 IIRC. >>> >> Correction, it still has security support till then and do not expect them to go away just >> yet. > > But we aren't concerned with providing 'new software' for any such legacy > environment. I don't think 2.2 is dead, yet. I should have added that, although there are changes to apr and the winnt mpm that will at some point kill interop with these revisions, right now they likely still work, no promise on how long that might last. As far as scripting installation/postinstall operations in PowerShell, it turns out they too can add powershell as a necessary prerequisite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell >> Something that I have noticed with people who install with the .msi, it would be nice to >> have an upgrade option. Many newbs are fearful of uninstalling to upgrade since they do >> not know it will leave behind and not overwrite what the want saved and not overwritten. > > Agreed. And I should have added that I hope WIX will make this simpler.