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
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