Bugs item #1948967, was opened at 2008-04-22 11:14
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Category: installer
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>Status: Pending
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: install requires admin privileges
Initial Comment:
Not sure if this is a bug, but it certainly makes Mercurial a difficult sell in
a corporate environment. I am unable to install tortoisehg at work because it
requires admin privileges. I assume that this isn't 100% necessary as I am able
to install tortoisesvn. I don't really mind about this as I don't use windows,
but it is hard to convince anyone that mercurial is the best vcs for a project
if they cannot install the client.
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>Comment By: Steve Borho (sborho)
Date: 2009-02-16 00:12
Message:
installer requirement was backed out to 'poweruser'. we intend to offer a
user-level installer in the future that does not install shell extensions.
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Comment By: TK Soh (tksoh)
Date: 2008-04-23 20:08
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According to Steve Borho's comment in the release note:
* Installer now requires admin privileges in order to prevent an
upgrade from requiring two reboots.
I personally am not sure exactly what role the admin privileges is playing
here. But you definitely need some level of admin permission in order to
install the shell extensions. I'll be surprise if TortoiseSVN doesn't
require that.
In any case, I wonder if a 'power user' privilege will be a good
compromise.
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