Saturday, June 20, 2009

Making Me Sweat

For quite some time now, I've been working on an Enterprise Search project for my organization. Last week I've installed a FAST ESP system as part of a POC, the system uses many third party software components and since each has it's own license they can't be provided as part of the ESP software and have to be downloaded as part of the installation process.

But, here's the catch, I don't have any Internet access on my network. The installation guide provides a solution for this kind of scenario - install the ESP on a computer with Internet access, after the components are downloaded you can abort the installation and transfer the components any way you want to your LAN.
This is a very strange solution, why run an unnecessary installation? What if I have limited privileges on my Internet computer?
After all, there's a much simpler solution - why not provide me with the links to the components? After all, what I did was to harvest the links from the manifest.xml the installation uses to download the components...
Why make me sweat?
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

You're damn right. Offline installation should be possible.

Regardless, there's a slick solution to that, which Michael and myself once implemented. Remind me to tell you about it.

June 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM

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