gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:03 +, Peter Clifton wrote: I've used Cesar Strauss' minipack tools to build it before. This isn't particularly maintained, but the latest gEDA version is packaged up here for testing: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-windows.html WARNING:: A colleague of

Re: gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread timecop
${EnvVarUpdate} $0 PATH A HKLM $INSTDIR\bin It looks OK from a quick glance, but it depends what build settings were used for the NSIS... Warning this code will replace paths rather than append if the existing path exceeds the maximum string length in the NSIS build you are using. Maybe he

Re: gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 22:04 +0900, timecop wrote: ${EnvVarUpdate} $0 PATH A HKLM $INSTDIR\bin It looks OK from a quick glance, but it depends what build settings were used for the NSIS... That I don't know, I just apt-get install'ed it. I guess it might be worth me re-building the

Re: gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread timecop
Warning this code will replace paths rather than append if the existing path exceeds the maximum string length in the NSIS build you are using. Maybe he tried installing it into some huge path and ended up trimming the entire var set or something... I think what could happen if im

Re: gEDA-user: WINDOWS BUILD WARNING (WAS: Re: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 23:10 +0900, timecop wrote: Maybe he tried installing it into some huge path and ended up trimming the entire var set or something... I think what could happen if im reading this warning correctly is that if he already HAD a lot of stuff in $PATH that was some huge