Sounds great! On 10/27/14, 11:05 AM, "Neil Madsen" <li...@cranialinteractive.com> wrote:
>Alex, >In one of the updates to the installer ([1]) I added in some checks to >help >protect against the user trying to select a directory the installer isn't >able to install to. > >[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34446 > >Neil > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] >Sent: October-27-14 11:13 AM >To: dev@flex.apache.org >Subject: Re: Higher than normal installer error rate > > > >On 10/26/14, 10:22 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>> As I typed "windowsError" into Google, the first completion offered >>> was "Access denied". Maybe it is the same error as the inability to >>> create the temp dir. >> >>A lot of windows error match the form "WindowsError [error <code>]" >>which I think is what google is picking up there. ie access denied is >>error no 5. So not sure that is the issue. >Yes, it could be other Windows error codes, but the Installer probably >doesn't use the OS for much other than file management. My guess is we >get >this error from AIR when it tries to do something file-related and Windows >throws one of its errors. > >BTW, if it is "access denied" and the other top failure is "unable to >create >temp dir", I'm wondering if we really need to create a temp dir at all? >Does the Installer actually need to write something before the destination >folder is chosen? Otherwise, maybe the Installer should create a temp dir >in the destination folder. One would expect the destination folder is >writeable. The Ant script does that. It creates an "in" folder in the >folder it has been expanded into. > >-Alex > >
