[wxPython-users] Distributing a wxpy app - central server or each workstation

[Nicolas BRICHE]

Jon Cage a écrit :
> What about writing a batch file that is called to start the app up? It 
> could (try to) copy the one off the server to a local area and run from 
> there. That way if the network goes down you won't be stranded. This 
> might not be so good if the app is opened regularly, but perhaps you 
> could do some sort of version check to see if the version on the server 
> is the same as their local copy?

We're actually doing something close to this with an (quite insane) app 
of ours:

In a "Launch.bat":

set REFERENCE_PATH="\\server\share\app"
set LOCAL_PATH="C:\app"

xcopy %REFERENCE_PATH% %LOCAL_PATH% /H /Y /E /D /R

%LOCAL_PATH%\app.exe

This checks the local app's tree against the 'official' tree on the 
server, updates as needed, then launches the app.

Of course, this is a simplified version.  For exemple, we also added a 
'lil gadget that displays a moving "Looking for updates" thingy so the 
user doesn't freak when the app takes more than a second to launch.


N.

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