"Patching" the V3 IdP in windows.

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/1/14, 4:28 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>I'm wanting to avoid getting into patching the IdP for windows (the
>mechanisms we use don't really fit and MSP generation always seems a bit
>fraught).

It's a hassle if nothing else.

>This avoids the whole troubled issue of generating msps, at the cost of
>providing a gun/bullet configuration whereby users can also downgrade by
>reapplying an older version of the same installer.  But this is the moral
>equivalent of uninstalling a patch from control panel.

It's not like a manual shell install won't have the same issue (probably
more so, we don't check that sort of thing now).

It would be good to get some experience with this approach and then we can
maybe apply that to the SP in the future.

-- Scott