Poll: Should it Support Network Drives?

[Support]

Right now, Visual Patch only searches for previous releases of software in local fixed drives (hard drives). It does not search Network drives because that could take a LONG time on a large network.

What would be the best option?

A. Leave it as it is. This simplifies things and most software is installed locally anyhow.

B. Make it always search mapped network drives as well as fixed local drives. This will ensure that we always find the software.

C. Let the developer decide at design time - local only, network only, or both.

D. Let the user decide at runtime.

E. Other suggestions???

Let's hear from you.

- Brett

[chian]

How about to have the option to also search network drives plus to have the ability to specify a preferred path. Maybe the preferred path could be obtained by looking at something in the local drive (a value in an ini file or registry entry, a default shortcut name, a default link?). This will add some complexity, but it will sure be quick. In the worst case, the user should be able to locate the files manually.

Carlos

[jassing]

Let the developer decide, which shoudl include letting the end user decide.

[ScottWirt]

I believe that you should be able to specify to search, but you should also be able to specify an exact location and prevent a search altogether. We use Setup Factory and we record the installation folder in the registry. This is used in future installations so we automatically default to the same folder that was used for the previous installation. The patches should have the option of working the same way.