[AccessD] Deployment

...can't speak to 2000 but the deployment package in AXP was head over heels
better than the A97 version ...I've deployed more than a hundred AXP
runtimes with it without a hiccup ...hth :)

William Hindman "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with
me." Disraeli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:55 AM
Subject: [AccessD] Deployment


Dear List:

I've got an app I'm developing for the consumer market and we're in beta
testing now.  It's in A2K so all the betas have to have Access.

Eventually it will have to be packaged as a run-time. But at that point it
will be shrink-wrapped.

In the short term we could expand our beta testing universe with a run-time.
So I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this.

The problem AFAIK with the run-times is their size.  Right now we can email
the mde to a beta tester and it's about 3-4MB.  If I put up a run-time on my
web site, beta testers are not likely to know how to do an FTP program.

I suppose I could make a password protected folder on my web site, and get
my web site developer to make the run-time downloadable or installable from
the site.  I don't know how to do this.  Maybe she does.

I've got A97 developer's edition, Wise Installer, and the Sagekey script for
A97.  But I don't think that the app can be converted back to A97.  In any
event, the total A97/Wise/Sagekey package runs to about 70MB IIRC.

I could buy A2002 or A2003 if they've got a better deployment capability
than they've had in the past.

What are your recommendations, suggestions, thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
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