I'm in the process of evaluating VisualPatch. We use Installshield to create releases here and planning to use VisualPatch to create incremental patches (which contain only the differences)
If I use VisualPatch to build incremental releases, how can I ensure that my users will install all the patches in the correct order? eg. supposed my release is at version 42.0.0. I then create 5 patches - version 42.0.1, 42.0.2....42.0.5
Suppose user 1 is at 42.0.1 and user 2 at 42.0.4.
When I create 42.0.6 , I need to let the user know that he needs to install all previous patches before he can install 42.0.6? Does VisualPatch provide some mechanism so that this process is transparent to the user? In my example above, user 1 will need patch 42.0.2 thru 42.06 but user 2 will only need patches 42.0.5 and 42.0.6?
Thanks for your help
--nbp
If I use VisualPatch to build incremental releases, how can I ensure that my users will install all the patches in the correct order? eg. supposed my release is at version 42.0.0. I then create 5 patches - version 42.0.1, 42.0.2....42.0.5
Suppose user 1 is at 42.0.1 and user 2 at 42.0.4.
When I create 42.0.6 , I need to let the user know that he needs to install all previous patches before he can install 42.0.6? Does VisualPatch provide some mechanism so that this process is transparent to the user? In my example above, user 1 will need patch 42.0.2 thru 42.06 but user 2 will only need patches 42.0.5 and 42.0.6?
Thanks for your help
--nbp
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