I just realized that we have a slight problem with offering to install the tray manager through update.cmd.
Users who install the tray manager in this way will have problems uninstalling. Their uninstaller won't be aware of the tray manager, and will therefore not shut it down before trying to delete the installation directory. As the tray manager is executed from within that directory and Windows doesn't allow deletion of a running executable, the uninstaller will throw an "could not delete files" error. The error box will offer to retry, but the user probably won't realize that he needs to manually shut down the tray manager first. Possible solutions: 1) Don't install the tray manager through update.cmd. Users will have to reinstall to get the tray icon. Cons: We are leaving our current user base behind (IMHO: very bad idea) 2) Warn user (upon update.cmd installation) to manually close it down before uninstalling. Cons: The user will probably forget about it and be just as lost when he finally uninstalls. (IMHO: not a proper fix) 3) Update the uninstaller in update.cmd as well. This raises the core issue: That Windows installations soon will have different layout because of the recent change from running the service under a custom user to running under a standardized service user. That gives us 2 possibilities: 3.a) Add backward compatibility to the uninstaller. Cons: Will be a hell to maintain an uninstaller that has to support all previous installation layouts. The recent service user change has resulted in significant changes to it already. (IMHO: an acceptable work-around, but is a PITA to maintain in the long run) 3.b) Update the whole installation in update.cmd. This mainly involves moving current installations away from the custom user and cleaning up after the mess. Cons: Will require some work, and will require either an UAC escalation helper executable for update.cmd or porting update.cmd to real code that can escalate itself. (IMHO: the optimal solution long-term) Anyone? Juiceman, what are your thoughts on this? You are the update.cmd wiz. - Zero3 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
