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Pretty Good Packaging… PGP [Part One]
Sometimes I wonder if the real MOAPT that I’ve faced was not, in fact, Palm Desktop All-in-One, but PGP Desktop v8.0.3. Judging purely by my email inbox, which currently contains 8 flagged messages with questions begining with something like, “How the heck did you package PGP?!?”—you...New Windows Installer 3.0 Downloads
Microsoft just published this one: a white paper on the new patch sequencing functionality available in Windows Installer 3.0. Also, if you hadn’t seen yet: the MSI 3.0 Redistributable download is also available (finally!), so you can finally package for v3.0 for all target systems, not just XP...Bugger of a Problem
Okay, all you Packaging Gurus: I need your help again! We’ve got a wacked-out problem with Access 97 Runtime and Office 2000 Standard Suite clobbering each other… I’ve explained as much as I can over in this thread at the Wise Newsgroups (now in a web-based forum), where the best of the...Wise Package Studio for Newbies
Dan found this great link the other day: Wise Package Studio for Newbies. If you are new to the idea of repackaging, to Windows Installer, or to WPS, this is a must-read. Then, when you’ve got that down pat, you can move on to my more advanced articles in the Repackaging for Windows Installer...WPKFM* and the MOAPT**
Lately my 2 contract employers are kinda arguing over me (a good place to be in, no doubt), so I’m spending one week in Maryland, then a week home in Maine, then back to Maryland, then home… you get the idea. And, if you’ve read my posts this week you probably got that I’m in Maryland...The Mother of All Packaging Tasks
Pity me… I’ve just been assigned a near-impossible task, and for some foolish reason I’m all gung-ho about it: I’m gonna try to make a single MSI package that installs Palm Desktop 4.1 and drivers for as many Palm, Handspring, and Sony Clié handhelds as possible. Here’s...About Me
My name is Eric Wallace. I'm quite fond of coffee, snorkel masks, hacking, recreational therapy, alternative uses for spam, and twelve-tone improvisation. Some of these things are true, but I'm not telling you which.
