That’s an interesting point. One thing to keep in mind is that many of our users are installing DrRacket in educational settings, where the program is to be available to all users. Is it possible to install without admin privileges in a way that makes it available to all users?
John > On Feb 14, 2021, at 1:37 AM, Dyllon Gagnier <dyllongagn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Still seeing this as of the time of this writing. Edge Dev flags it > immediately and other browsers download the file, but then the file is > flagged when you try to run it. > > I filled out the Google Form and just wanted to update on this thread to let > people know that this still seems to be an issue. > > As a workaround until this is fixed, maybe put a warning about it on the > download page for Windows as well as the file hash in case people want to > verify it. > > I tested out forcing the installer to run as non-admin via "cmd /min /C "set > __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" racket-8.0-x86_64-win32-cs.exe" > and that resulted in no prompt being raised. Running it directly from cmd > still raises the error. However, running directly from am admin cmd prompt > also > launched the installer with no warnings. The issue seems to be caused by the > fact that the installer immediately tries to elevate to admin. > > I think it may be possible to get the installer to work without admin as long > as Racket installs outside of Program Files. I know some installers only > elevate to admin if the user requests to do a system wide install. I tested > this out about a year ago and the Racket installer doesn't actually need > admin permissions. > I verified this by using the RUNASINVOKER trick since this was on a work > machine were I did not have admin permissions. > On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 1:12:06 AM UTC-8 dominik....@trustica.cz > wrote: > On 11. 02. 21 0:14, 'John Clements' via Racket Developers wrote: > > Wow, that’s incredibly informative and helpful. Out of curiosity, do you > > have any ballpark idea what the number of downloads required for something > > to be listed as trusted is? > > I asked my colleague who was handling this back then and frankly the > answer is no. > > Dominik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/eb7fffd8-554c-4aad-bb81-05271d0fa0c8n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/19b657ec-a225-4aa8-9d62-f610c98f37e6%40mtasv.net.
