On 5/3/14 5:41 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote:
>My only worry about putting the XML file on DIST is that it does break the >realm of trust (some nefarious mirror could modify this file to download a >modified version of the SDK). Good point. And I think I have to go back to a.o to get the mirror.cgi to find the mirror. What about using a CDN? >I'm assuming that we hard-coded the CRC >checks to go back to apache.org to validate the downloads, which still >means there could be errors. AFAICT, the Installer goes back to a.o for the checksum. > >As far as permission goes, there is a Windows API to escalate the >privilege >of the running program to Admin. We could do a write test to the >directory >chosen (just touch a file and delete it) right as the user selects it, and >if it fails, we could call that API. It would require an ANE, but I think >I have one already that does that, if people want me to bring it in. Sounds interesting, but is that really "ok"? Do other installers do that? > >-Nick > > >On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Justin Mclean ><jus...@classsoftware.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > For me, I don't have to do anything special on Windows to run the >> > installer, probably because I have admin rights. >> I assume we can read the permissions on the directory chosen and warn >>the >> user if it's not writable and ask them to select another? I don't see an AIR API for this, but I could have missed it. -Alex
