On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:22 +0100, Peer Sommerlund wrote: >> >> >> 2009/2/12 TK Soh <[email protected]> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > In theory, a future upgrade of THG would only require a >> restart of >> > explorer.exe if the upgrade were 'in place'. >> >> >> Technically, restart explorer.exe is all we need (rebooting is >> a >> simply the easiest way to guarantee that). I heard TCVS is >> doing this, >> but not sure how complicated the approach is. >> >> If we can get the WIX installer in place, then many things >> should be possible. >> >> >> >> >> It is surprising how much stuff you can do from Inno. >> >> >> >> I did some work on Wix about a year ago. As I recall My final >> conclusion was that the install-without-reboot is probably not worth >> the work needed to convert from Inno, since Inno just requires a small >> program (maybe 10 lines of code) that restarts explorer. As the >> installer write in HKLM we must reboot no matter which installer we >> use. >> >> >> To completely avoid reboot we should add a user-only installation >> path. >> >> >> There are other arguments for a switch to Wix, e.g. msi being a >> windows standard. On the other hand, after scanning the manuals of >> both products my impression was they can do almost the same things, >> and that wix files are significantly more complex to read. Wix does >> not give you flexibility for free, you will also have to write custom >> code to make a customized installer - and in my eyes this reduces the >> advantage of wix. >> >> I would not pretend to have deep knowledge about writing windows >> installers, so maybe somebody could explan the advantage of switching >> to wix. > > Wix seems to support optional install parameters better than Inno does, > but that may just be lack of experience on my part. Here's what I'd > like to see in the 0.8 installer: > > * Optional overlay support (no TortoiseOverlays or hooks registered)
Do you mean no display of overlays icons, or display without using TortoiseOverlays? > * Optional shell integration (no COM services registered at all) Just to speak my mind. While I understand the 'issues' this is trying to address, we can't call it a Tortoise(HG) without the shell integration. That's the reason why I never try to provide a channel to achieve this from within TortoiseHg (yes, it can be done) I understand the overlay icons display is less than optimum now, but the context menu has to be there. > * Detect situations where uninstall is required and force them > > For translations, I think we can ship them all. And I'm not too > concerned about translating the installer itself, but it would be > nice. > > MSI seems to be the "future" for software distribution on Windows, but > if we can get the above features without WIX, I would be ok with it. > > -- > Steve > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
