On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 12:33 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On 08/12/17 21:04, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The new windows installer is prepared, I can release any day, but > > there's still one critical piece missing: we need update.cmd fixed > > to at > > least download freenet-stable-latest.jar from github instead of > > trying > > to use the defunct downloads.freenetproject.org. > > > > This is the file: > > https://github.com/freenet/wininstaller-innosetup/blob/master/instal > > l_node/updater/update.cmd > > > > We need this updated to download from github releases, similar to > > what > > update.sh now does: > > https://github.com/freenet/java_installer/blob/next/scripts/update.s > > h#L271 > > > > But if I were to do that myself, it would be idiotic: I have almost > > no > > Windows experience (I never used a Windows computer as my home > > system) > > and most certainly do not know about intricacies of Windows systems. > > > > Therefore we need you to step up and go and get update.cmd to work > > again: > > > > - Access https://github.com/freenet/fred/releases/latest > > - Get the forwarding URL to grab the LATEST_TAG parameter. > > - download https://github.com/freenet/fred/releases/download/${LATES > > T_TAG}/freenet-${LATEST_TAG}.jar" > > > > If we can at least get the newest freenet jar-file, we can go and > > fix > > other things from there, if the switch to gradle creates unexpected > > problems. > > > > So if you have some experience with Windows command line shell, > > please > > step up and fix update.cmd. This is the last real blocker before we > > can > > go forward towards releasing next. > > > > Best wishes, > > Arne > > I still think this is going to break badly whenever you have an > incompatible change to the dependencies. > > update.cmd should be auto-generated from dependencies.properties. >
update\.(sh|cmd) shouldn't exist anymore. The long term plan is to migrate to a platform-independent wrapper for last-resort recovery... Probably something python based based on TUF https://theupdateframework.github.io/ But Arne said that he doesn't want to do that because "it's too complicated" (despite having a POC provided to him showcasing how it would work)... and would take too much time... Months later he is asking for help supporting the windows version of the legacy script that has now been broken for years (we're past the one year mark now)... I am eager to see if he finds someone to help him with it. Florent
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