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[Upendran]

Updates for multiple releases (say XP, Vista 32 & 64 bit, office 2007, office 2003 etc) can be downloaded and kept upto date in one directory (ease of maintenance). When someone needs (say XP and office 2003 only), the required releases alone can be extracted with one click to another directory / flash disk.

This will be useful for persons maintaining multiple operating systems. This could be a separate program.

[Cristiano]

sorry, i was unable to fully understand you. each autopatcher release can be downloaded in one folder, like one for xp, another one for vista, etc that will not give any issue at all for you or you may keep all in the same folder that will works, but you may have an issue when updating: not all releases are updated at the exact same time and some share the exact same module. so, you may have some verifications errors that will be fixed as soon as we can

once merged, split each release again can be a problem

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[metalinspired]

Upendran, on Sep 26 2008, 07:32 AM, said:

Updates for multiple releases (say XP, Vista 32 & 64 bit, office 2007, office 2003 etc) can be downloaded and kept upto date in one directory (ease of maintenance). When someone needs (say XP and office 2003 only), the required releases alone can be extracted with one click to another directory / flash disk.

This will be useful for persons maintaining multiple operating systems. This could be a separate program.

You took the words out of my mouth
I keep a copy of Autopatcher on my server with patches for all supported operating systems. But mostly I use it to update Win XP machines and it would be of great help if I could simply "make a copy" of autopatcher that has only XP patches in it.

[James]

The idea sounds simple and attractive.

In practice, the maintenance of the program would be very time-consuming, because it would have to run parallel scripts to APUP.
Those scripts would have to match the APUP scripts at all times and every script change would have to be done twice.

You can always maintain separate OS yourself by downloading to separate folders, using APUP.

Personally, I think maintaining this program would be a complete nightmare.
That's why there are no plans to implement this.

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