setup request:

[Armin Sander]

Hi,

> Not only is it low priority it is basically not doable.  Win32 prevents
> setup.exe being replaced if it's open.  One could never rely on the
setup.exe
> being replaced being closed, so it's not worth consideration.

There is a simple solution on all win-os's and filesystems. It is possible
to clone setup.exe and 're-spawn' it for enabling patches to the main
executable. I am using such a solution in a similar structured self-updating
software.

I may provide some delphi-source excerpts on request (easy to read'n'port).

  armin



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