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? > > 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. > > 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). > > I ran across this http://www.battoexe.com/ It might be useful to cause a UAC prompt. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091023/fb5c24fe/attachment.html>
