I can't think of a
one liner right now, but I'll think some more about it :-).
This is kind of a
complicated question. Actually, its several questions.
There are three
"packages" we release separately. They are the release announcements
you see on the announce@gesn.com mailing
list.
The short answer to
your question of "How many different components does it take to
install AVTS" is one, the AVTS InstallShield package.
The long answer is
really about what sub-components ship with each of the above packages. The
GEMS and AVTS packages are installed using a system called InstallShield, which
is responsible for seeing that all the sub-components get put in the right
place. Full InstallShield releases are large, and typically ship on CD or
some other high capacity media. Since the sub-components are
relatively independent, it sometimes makes sense to only upgrade part of a
package to save ordering a new CD or downloading a huge InstallShield
release. Also sometimes a custom sub-component is created for an account
with special needs.
GEMS:
AVTS:
Both AVTS and GEMS
require a windows operating system. We don't have control over what
various versions of windows are out there, so we need to ship OS components
to make sure all systems have the tools GEMS and AVTS need to run. In a
perfect world, the latest versions of these components would already be part of
the OS. Everything on the lists below should come standard with Windows
2000, but of course that has not been released yet, and in any case woudn't help
systems already out there.
On occasion problems
have been found with various DLLs that are part of the operation system
(MFC42.DLL and OLE32.DLL have been problematic in the past). When this
happens, we distribute new versions of these DLLs on the FTP site and update the
InstallShield.
All of these OS
components are included with the full releases of GEMS and AVTS. They
can also be ordered/downloaded directly from
Microsoft. Windows 95/98
(AVTS):
Windows NT 4.0
(GEMS):
Finally, so it
doesn't feel left out, there is the AccuVote firmware releases. There are
currently two flavors, PC 1.94x and CC 2.00x where x is some letter of the
alphabet. Neither have any sub-components to worry
about.
Ken
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