[python-win32] testing windows services

[Jim Vickroy]

Thomas Heller wrote:

>Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa at gmail.com> writes:
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>>Hello,
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>>within the win32-extensions under demo I found the pipetestservice.py and am 
>>developping my own services out of it.
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>>With each development step I have to
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>>stop the running service
>>remove the existing one
>>install the new one
>>start the service
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>AFAIK, if you simply change some code in your service, there's no need
>to remove and install it again (unless you change code that is registerd
>with windows - the service name or such stuff).
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That has been my experience; changing code in a service (with the 
exceptions noted by Thomas) does not require the service to be reinstalled.

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