Re[2]: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-04 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Duncan, Monday, May 4, 2009, 11:01:04 PM, you wrote: >> What's new in 2009.2.0-rc1: >> * Installer size was cut down by 50% by turning on 7z >> compression (thanks to Bulat Ziganshin for the heads-up). > BTW, it looked like the size was pretty much unchanged at ~50mb. Did the >

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 06:12 +, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > Hi all, > > I've uploaded the release candidate Windows installer to > > http://code.haskell.org/~refold/HaskellPlatform-2009.2.0-rc1-setup.exe > > Unless someone finds serious bugs in this RC, this version will > be released on Mond

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 01:39 +, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > Duncan Coutts writes: > > > [...] > > I've added milestones for 2009.2.1 and .2. > > While you're at it, can you also add a "Windows installer" component? Done. Also added "OSX installer" and "Generic source tarball"

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi Duncan, Duncan Coutts writes: > [...] > I've added milestones for 2009.2.1 and .2. While you're at it, can you also add a "Windows installer" component? ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haske

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 20:53 +, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > Hi Claus, > > Claus Reinke writes: > > > Pre Cabal, ghc installations were *relocatable* (no hardcoded absolute > > paths, everything relative to where ghc is). Some of us have occasionally > > used that to run ghc from a usb drive o

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi Claus, Claus Reinke writes: > Pre Cabal, ghc installations were *relocatable* (no hardcoded absolute > paths, everything relative to where ghc is). Some of us have occasionally > used that to run ghc from a usb drive or a network-mounted directory > when giving presentations with demos on som

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 12:53:52PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > >> > ($PROGRAMFILES\Haskell Platform\$HP_VERSION). > >> Is this location configurable? > > > > Of course you can change the install location. You'll have to > > edit packages.conf manually, though, if you'll later decide to > > mo

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Claus Reinke
>> http://github.com/23Skidoo/haskell-platform-windows/ >> >> (the main source file is Nsisfile.nsi) > > Thanks, that is almost readable. So you're actually removing > the $PLATFORMDIR explicitly from package.conf, and the > filetype associations seem to follow the current ghc installer's > ideas?

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Claus Reinke
> What kind of integration do you mean? What is it you would be looking > for or looking to avoid? You've mentioned previously the issue of > "stealing" file extensions etc. That'd be a good one to test. Is there > anything else? I thought I had made that quite clear in all those previous reports

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Claus Reinke
>> > ($PROGRAMFILES\Haskell Platform\$HP_VERSION). >> Is this location configurable? > > Of course you can change the install location. You'll have to > edit packages.conf manually, though, if you'll later decide to > move the Haskell Platform directory somewhere else. ? .. checking .. argh!*

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-03 Thread Sven Panne
Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2009 02:29:03 schrieb Duncan Coutts: > [...] > > If it is a question of location, put it in a non-active directory, to be > > moved (as I've been doing on my system) where Cabal installs its > > executables. That would avoid installing any files outside the HP > > root directory

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-02 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 14:57 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > Could you please provide some details about what the default > installation mode will do to the system settings or registry, so that > people can make an informed choice about which installation mode > to use? File types used, associated act

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-02 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi Claus, Claus Reinke writes: > >* We now use a single root directory for both GHC and > > extralibs > > ($PROGRAMFILES\Haskell Platform\$HP_VERSION). > > Is this location configurable? Of course you can change the install location. You'll have to edit packages.conf manually, th

Re: Windows Installer RC

2009-05-02 Thread Claus Reinke
>* We now use a single root directory for both GHC and > extralibs > ($PROGRAMFILES\Haskell Platform\$HP_VERSION). Is this location configurable? Is it baked into any code? What is the directory structure below the root? >* Installed files are tracked precisely (no unsafe `rm -

Windows Installer RC

2009-05-01 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi all, I've uploaded the release candidate Windows installer to http://code.haskell.org/~refold/HaskellPlatform-2009.2.0-rc1-setup.exe Unless someone finds serious bugs in this RC, this version will be released on Monday unchanged. What's new in 2009.2.0-rc1: * We now use a single root di