Domino Thoughts

Helping a customer install another Quickr Hotfix yesterday and he and I both were admiring the "ease" of installing these hotfixes.  The current hotfix has about 4 pages of tables that list the files in the hotfix, which hotfix they were introduced in, and where they go.  From that, the user is supposed to figure out which files they need based on their current hotfix level, aperture of the sun, relative humidity in Borneo, and other archaic means. Afterwards, prayers and sacrifices are necessary to be sure you didn't forget a file that will cause all h@#% to break loose on your server.  For example, quickplace.jar is apparently very important to have when running qptool commands - who knew! ;)

Well, evidently, that may be changing soon.  An automated installer for Quickr hotfixes is alleged to be on the horizon.  What form this will be, and how efficacious (big word!) it is remains to be seen, but it must be an improvement over the current method.