On Wednesday 21 October 2009 05:10:48 Juiceman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> wrote: > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:30:45 Zero3 wrote: > >>> Juiceman wrote: > >>>> As far as I know, the tray manager is not hosted on the Freenet > >>>> website anywhere and therefore cannot be updated. > >>> toad, can you upload a dummy of this, until the beta has been deployed? > >> > >> Done. Sorry for the delay. It would be really great to get the new > >> installer deployed, it is IMHO vital for 0.8. As I understand it the big > >> problem is that there is no working update script for the new installer? > > Commit > http://github.com/freenet/wininstaller-staging/commit/2fe991d7c58f3fe2c23b222ee678ea5312c87072 > should have fixed update.cmd compatibility, please deploy it to the > website.
This will work with both old and new installations? I.e. it should replace both update.cmd and update.cmd.new? > > > The beta branch is basically ready to be merged into master and > > deployed. This will also finally resolve the last long-standing > > wininstaller bugs from back when we used the Java installer (the custom > > user related ones). > > > > Only remaining issue is indeed update.cmd, but Juiceman hasn't replied > > on whether development for the beta branch is finished. It seemed to > > work in my tests though. > > Once the freenettray.exe is on the website I can wire it in to at > least update installs going forward. No need to wait on that. Deploy > away. Great... > > Upgrading old installs can come later. > > > > > Of the reported wininstaller failures, the beta seems to solve most of > > them. A few have reported failure even with the beta. I only managed to > > get a hold of one of these reporters, and his problem was revealed to be > > a broken Windows registry database. > > > > This new install design (using a standard service user account instead > > of a custom one) raised a new issue regarding how to update old > > installs. It was more or less agreed that it would be a better idea to > > start from scratch on a real updater than hacking UAC-functionality into > > update.cmd. Juiceman has looked at this, but not made any real progress. > > I'm insanely overbooked at the moment, so I'm afraid I cannot do this > > myself right now. This means that we will be leaving the current users > > behind, most importantly leaving them without the upcoming tray manager > > (which IMHO is an important aspect both short- and long-term). > > > > - Zero3 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091022/366e1ba6/attachment.pgp>
