[AccessD] Distribution - a bit OT

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon Jun 2 10:05:02 CDT 2003


You would see a need if you ran into as many different versions of
Windows and Office as we do, Arthur.  

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 2:15 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Distribution - a bit OT


I have only created two installations with the Developer stuff, and
neither needed any fancy DLL installs or anything outside Access, but
the rest was relatively simple, including installing MSDE and then
restoring a database to said installation. The code to restore the db
took the longest time of all the processes, but it ended up at about 50
lines of code.

Sage and Wise doubtless have their place, but if you're not calling DLLs
etc. I frankly don't see the need for them. The built-in stuff does
everything I needed: create a directory, copy everything required into
it, create a setup program that installs everything in the user-selected
directory, then run a program (in my case a batch file) to do everything
else that's necessary.

Arthur

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: May 31, 2003 4:41 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Distribution - a bit OT


Even a vb or C++ app has to store the data somewhere.  Is that going to
be an mdb?  If so Jet has to be installed.

As another lister said, a "slap a CD in and install" is possible, and it
will NOT interfere with any other versions, if you use the sagekey etc
stuff.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Paul Black
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:00 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Distribution - a bit OT


Hi

I submitted a proposal to a client this week for a custom application.
Their nose is a bit bent out of shape because they feel they should be
able to slap a CD in the drive click the install button and the app will
install in a nice self-contained thing-a-ma-bob (that is what they
said).

Why do we have to have MS Access installed? You don't, I said, I can
supply a runtime version.

Why do we have to worry about what version of MS Access is installed
already? We did not ask for MS Access, we asked for a custom computer
application.

Why do we have to worry about installing a runtime version on a machine
with Access already on it and causing all kinds of problems
(paraphrased)?

Plain and simple they want an app that is a DBS management system but
they want something that is completely autonomous. What do I do? What
would you do? I may have already lost this deal but need to prepare for
the next time this happens.

Do I offer a solution that is all VB or C++ or some such thing or am I
missing the boat here. Please help.


Thanks

PB

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