Temp File only needs to be run once

We have a rather larger file, 60MB to be exact. I would like to have that run once in one of our updates. But in the updates to follow it is no longer needed. That said, if I have a customer that hasn't updated and we have pushed passed the update that houses the 60MB file. How can that file still be available?

Just to make it more clear, we updated our crystal reports run time engine. (which happens to be about a 60mb file). So in update v2.0.00 we released this file to run after the update was completed. This has been working just fine...BUT, I had to release another update v2.0.01 which included some updated reports.

Should v2.0.01 still have the run time engine included in the update? If I do include the file, the people that haven't yet updated to v2.0.00 will still get the file, which makes sense. But what I am seeing is that the people that have already updated to v2.0.00 are getting the file ran again which is causing me issues.....

Thanks in advance...TB

Should v2.0.01 still have the run time engine included in the update?

Yes.

But what I am seeing is that the people that have already updated to v2.0.00 are getting the file ran again which is causing me issues.....

You can include a batch file that in turn executes the exe depending on the %versionfrom% variable you pass to the batch. That is, if the user is running 2.0 or above, then don't run the exe.

Does that make sense?

In wyBuild 2.7.0 you won't have to do this. We're adding incremental patching, meaning the user will get all the patches they missed. This also means you won't have to include temp files will every version.

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