On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Tim van der Leeuw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM, TK Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tim van der Leeuw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > The latest installers required admin privileges before they can run. >> > That >> > means that I can't install them on a number of machines which I use, >> > I'll >> > have to use other (older) versions of TortoiseHG or Mercurial on those >> > machines. >> >> What's the older version of TortoiseHg you have on those machine? Do >> you mean you were able to install the older version as non-admin user? > > OK, I have to admit that on these computers, I actually never tried > installing TortoiseHG. Only the all-in-one installer for Mercurial. > > But as that installer is no longer maintained, and I read somewhere in the > changelogs/releasenotes for TortoiseHG that the installer was modified to > now require admin-privileges, I was kind of hoping that if the installer > would no longer require the admin-permissions, then it would at least still > be possible to install Mercurial (with extensions and extra packages), even > if I would miss the TortoiseHG overlay icons. > > As I wrote in a seperate mail, I actually have a problem with TortoiseHG at > the moment, for which I prefer not to use it... But if that problem can be > fixed, and I'd actually want to use TortoiseHG everywhere, then it would > still be nice to have an all-in-one installer that I can use everywhere, and > that would install Mercurial + all-in-one extensions for me, but excluding > overlay-icons for Explorer on those machines where I can not get sufficient > privileges to do so. > > >> non-admin users with admin permission will be able to installed. So I >> am quite confused. > > Sorry for the confusion. I hope that I make more sense now. I didn't know > that the older version couldn't actually be installed either, because I > never tried on those particular machines.
OK. Now I feel better ;-) > Basically I just want an all-in-one Mercurial installer, and if it installs > TortoiseHG as optional extra (when it can get the admin permissions to do > so), then that would just be a welcome extra to that installer. Sounds like a reasonable request. > But that's not a request to make on the TortoiseHG mailing list! Why not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
