On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Zero3 <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: >> On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:30:45 Zero3 wrote: >>> Juiceman wrote: >>>> As far as I know, the tray manager is not hosted on the Freenet >>>> website anywhere and therefore cannot be updated. >>> toad, can you upload a dummy of this, until the beta has been deployed? >> >> Done. Sorry for the delay. It would be really great to get the new installer >> deployed, it is IMHO vital for 0.8. As I understand it the big problem is >> that there is no working update script for the new installer?
Commit http://github.com/freenet/wininstaller-staging/commit/2fe991d7c58f3fe2c23b222ee678ea5312c87072 should have fixed update.cmd compatibility, please deploy it to the website. > > The beta branch is basically ready to be merged into master and > deployed. This will also finally resolve the last long-standing > wininstaller bugs from back when we used the Java installer (the custom > user related ones). > > Only remaining issue is indeed update.cmd, but Juiceman hasn't replied > on whether development for the beta branch is finished. It seemed to > work in my tests though. Once the freenettray.exe is on the website I can wire it in to at least update installs going forward. No need to wait on that. Deploy away. Upgrading old installs can come later. > > Of the reported wininstaller failures, the beta seems to solve most of > them. A few have reported failure even with the beta. I only managed to > get a hold of one of these reporters, and his problem was revealed to be > a broken Windows registry database. > > This new install design (using a standard service user account instead > of a custom one) raised a new issue regarding how to update old > installs. It was more or less agreed that it would be a better idea to > start from scratch on a real updater than hacking UAC-functionality into > update.cmd. Juiceman has looked at this, but not made any real progress. > I'm insanely overbooked at the moment, so I'm afraid I cannot do this > myself right now. This means that we will be leaving the current users > behind, most importantly leaving them without the upcoming tray manager > (which IMHO is an important aspect both short- and long-term). > > - Zero3 > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. - Voltaire Those who would give up Liberty, to purchase temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
