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=== Important ===
* These two may have something in common - generally, offline mode sucks:
** sometimes offline mode doesn't detect disconnection properly, i.e., when used in VMware (or: it detects disconnection, but logon delay still waits full time)
** on some laptops, WPKG stalls on the first "pre" task. These machines disconnect the network card when running on a battery; however, WPKG hangs even if it's not running on a battery - probably the driver puts the network card in a disconnected state on bootup, and enables it later - this confuses WPKG service.
* some laptops have only wireless connections which is enabled much later. Wait until a network connection is available - what to do with the logon delay then?
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* upgrading WPKG Client from WPKG Client is not that easy (file in use, can't upgrade myself!)
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** parse output of wpkg.js (STDOUT) and display programs which are being installed
* make possible to execute everything on machine shutdown - with the same description/progress window as with logon delay
=== Boring / easy, but useful ===
* add support for 64 bit Windows systems - see http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93
* make WPKG Client window fit on 640x480 screen resolution - see http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90
* F1 launches "help file not found", should open help website
=== Already done ===
* command line tool for creating a crypted password (both Windows and UNIX version) - see http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/2008-April/003213.html for example code
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== WPKG Client ==
* some more integration with wpkg.js: wpkg.js should be able to pass information to WPKG Client:
** start selected installers with GUI (some installers break if not started with a GUI) - seems to be very complicated, and wpkg.js was already started in the background - not sure if anyone needs it - probably we don't need this one at all
=== Useful ===
* make possible to prevent a reboot or shutdown (i.e., we have a package which installs for 1 hour; when user restarts or shutdown, it only logs him out, installation continues, description/progress window is shown, and machine only shutdowns/reboots when everything is done)
=== Do we need this? ===
* restarting the service locally from within the wpkginst.exe * restarting the service on remote machines from within the wpkginst.exe * possibility to enable more debugging:** how long each part executed (-preright now, -post, wpkgit's possible with > 1.js etc3.)** exit code of each part** possibility x, one just has to log into give a file127.0.0.1 address, which is not very user friendly)
== WPKG web interface ==
[http://wpkg.linuxkidd.com WPKG web interface] currently needs a maintainer. If you're interested, please let us know both on wpkg-users@ and wpkg_web_users@ [[Support|mailing lists]].