On Friday 02 January 2009 16:50, Zero3 wrote:
> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > On Thursday 18 December 2008 13:18, Zero3 wrote:
> >   
> >> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> >>     
> >>>> On top of my head:
> >>>> - Cleaner code
> >>>> - Proper detection of FireFox location
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> We don't already have that? We check the registry etc ...
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Atm. we check for FF in 
> >> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App 
> >> Paths\firefox.exe" (Used for various things like the "Run" dialog and 
> >> loading common .dlls without knowing the full path) instead of the 
> >> official "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\3.0.4 
> >> (da)\Main\PathToExe" (On my system, version and locale string is fetched 
> >> from "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla 
> >> Firefox\CurrentVersion"). It's not really wrong as we do it now, but we 
> >> really should check the official key and eventually fall back to App 
> >> Path (or path to http protocol handler application, or default install 
dir).
> >>     
> >
> > That's easy enough to fix within browse.cmd. Although checking specific 
> > version numbers really sucks - CurrentVersion is obviously better.
> >
> > You want to just do it or file a bug?
> >   
> 
> What I meant is that there is a string telling us the version number, 
> which is then appended to the path to get the final path for the 
> currently installed version . It's piece of cake in decent programming 
> languages, but stupid to do in batch files (probably why it wasn't done 
> in the first place, really).

Where is the string telling us the version number?
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 827 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: 
<https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090103/672a8359/attachment.pgp>

Reply via email to