Re: [freenet-support] minor bug webinstaller
At 18-11-2003, out of the blue, an email from Dave Hooper entitled 'Re: [freenet-support] minor bug webinstaller' surprised me with: Could you tell me under what circumstances the webinstaller will try to overwrite itself while running please? I see this only happening if you first download the webinstaller into the freenet application folder, and then run it, which is not really intended. If that is what you do (and if it is indeed common) then maybe I'll code for that behaviour. This intention is kinda that you just run (rather than download-and-save) the webinstaller! I don't understand what you mean, like, the installer is started remotely? It happens when I've got the webinstaller in its default place (I guess), in the Freenet dir, and run 'Update Snapshot' from the startmenu. I don't have my Freenet installation on C:, but on the second of quite a few partitions. If I copy the installer into a subdir and run it by starting the .exe, there is no trouble. BTW: the installer offers me as the only option to install 'Freenet Node', Space required 2.0 KB it sais, and then apparently gets the entire installation. Also not what you intend to show I reckon. For one like me with cable it's no problem to download a couple of megabytes but those with slower pipes won't be happy. -- groet! jan . ___ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: [freenet-support] minor bug webinstaller
It happens when I've got the webinstaller in its default place (I guess), in the Freenet dir, and run 'Update Snapshot' from the startmenu. Hm, right. That really really shouldn't happen! It's designed to not try and copy over itself if run from its default location for obvious reasons! I'll take a look at this when I have a chance. I don't have my Freenet installation on C:, but on the second of quite a few partitions. Yeh, that's fine. My installation isn't on C: either (in fact I don't use C for anything whatsoever) If I copy the installer into a subdir and run it by starting the .exe, there is no trouble. BTW: the installer offers me as the only option to install 'Freenet Node', Space required 2.0 KB it sais, and then apparently gets the entire installation. Also not what you intend to show I reckon. For one like me with cable it's no problem to download a couple of megabytes but those with slower pipes won't be happy. Yeh, it reports space required as that's approximately how much space it needs in addition to what's already on your system. Additional Space if you like. But because it's a webinstall it automatically tries to download the latest components, freenet.exe, NodeConfig.exe, etc. There's no option to only download the latest .jar but not any of the other components I'm afraid but this should probably be added. The webinstaller needs a huge overhaul at this time, but I don't have the time to do this for the forseeable future. d ___ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
[freenet-support] minor bug webinstaller
This is probably a well known bug but it still persists. The web installer tries to overwrite itself which of course isn't possible since it is in use. This can be circumvented by putting the installer in a different folder so it's not that much of a problem, just a bit confusing. -- groet! jan . ___ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
Re: [freenet-support] minor bug webinstaller
Could you tell me under what circumstances the webinstaller will try to overwrite itself while running please? I see this only happening if you first download the webinstaller into the freenet application folder, and then run it, which is not really intended. If that is what you do (and if it is indeed common) then maybe I'll code for that behaviour. This intention is kinda that you just run (rather than download-and-save) the webinstaller! d - Original Message - From: Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: [freenet-support] minor bug webinstaller This is probably a well known bug but it still persists. The web installer tries to overwrite itself which of course isn't possible since it is in use. This can be circumvented by putting the installer in a different folder so it's not that much of a problem, just a bit confusing. -- groet! jan . ___ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support ___ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
