[Wrapper-user] Wrapper Run/Install Scripts

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This is a question about the run & install scripts for TanukiSoft.

Currently the default scripts for Windows that are supplied always find the wrapper executable in a relative path to the current directory (see _WRAPPER_BASE, _WRAPPER_L_EXE and _REALPATH).

As we have many 10s of services running on all our servers we only want one copy of TanukiSoft (and other third-party software used by the service) so we can upgrade them all at the same time. Having a copy of TanukiSoft in each service install is a versioning nightmare.

This means that the wrapper configuration files for Windows services end up with a convoluted WRAPPER_BASE, something that starts with a load of "../../.." etc.

It gets more complex as we run a mixture of Windows, Solaris and Linux boxes as he Unix boxes DO support an absolute path to the wrapper.

Whilst we've got this working OK I do feel it's a bit messy.

We don't want to start messing with the default scripts provided by TanukiSoft - rem Do not modify anything beyond this point :) - if we can help it.

Would it be possible in a future release to support absolute paths in Windows as you do in Unix?

Maybe the Windows scripts could detect a "\\" at start or ":" in second character?

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