Re: [Denemo-devel] Problems with the window installer. Re: [bug #45956] Installer deletes system path.

[Richard Shann]

Jeremiah,

I see you built a 1.2.4 mingw binary overnight. This one does not have
usr/share/fonts/denemo/truetype/feta* or emmentaler* just Denemo.ttf,
and on installation only Denemo.ttf is available in C:\Windows\Fonts
with the expected outcome: the treble clef in the display appears as È
and the Fermata marking (which comes from emmentaler) appears as a box
with its code in it.

Richard

On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 13:11 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> Jeremiah,
> I think there is something we could try to improve the windows
> installer.
> In https://github.com/jjbenham/gub/blob/master/nsis/denemo.nsi
> 
> there is this function:
> 
> Function postinstall_denemo
>       CopyFiles /silent "$INSTDIR\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\Denemo.ttf" 
> "$WINDIR\Fonts\Denemo.ttf"
>       StrCpy $FONT_DIR "$WINDIR\Fonts"
>       !insertmacro InstallTTFFont 
> "${ROOT}\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\Denemo.ttf"
>       CopyFiles /silent "$INSTDIR\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\feta.ttf" 
> "$WINDIR\Fonts\feta.ttf"
>       !insertmacro InstallTTFFont 
> "${ROOT}\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\feta.ttf"
>       CopyFiles /silent 
> "$INSTDIR\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\emmentaler.ttf" 
> "$WINDIR\Fonts\emmentaler.ttf"
>       !insertmacro InstallTTFFont 
> "${ROOT}\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\emmentaler.ttf"
>       ClearErrors
> FunctionEnd
> 
> I think this may have stopped working with some versions of windows:
> When I manually drag feta.ttf to the $WINDIR\Fonts\ directory windows
> actually changes the name to feta25.2.ttf and the emmentaler.ttf is
> renamed to Emmentaler-26.ttf
> 
> So it may be that replacing that version of postinstall_denemo with this
> will work:
> 
> Function postinstall_denemo
>       CopyFiles /silent "$INSTDIR\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\Denemo.ttf" 
> "$WINDIR\Fonts\Denemo.ttf"
>       StrCpy $FONT_DIR "$WINDIR\Fonts"
>       !insertmacro InstallTTFFont 
> "${ROOT}\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\Denemo.ttf"
>       CopyFiles /silent "$INSTDIR\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\feta.ttf" 
> "$WINDIR\Fonts\feta25.2.ttf"
>       !insertmacro InstallTTFFont 
> "${ROOT}\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\feta.ttf"
>       CopyFiles /silent 
> "$INSTDIR\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\emmentaler.ttf" 
> "$WINDIR\Fonts\Emmentaler-26.ttf"
>       !insertmacro InstallTTFFont 
> "${ROOT}\usr\share\fonts\truetype\denemo\emmentaler.ttf"
>       ClearErrors
> FunctionEnd
> 
> 
> Though why there should be both the CopyFiles command and the
> InstallTTFont procedure run I don't understand.
> 
> Could you try this out on a build of the mingw exe installer?
> 
> The other puzzle is why the installer seems to be adding to the system
> path environment variable, the function to do that has been commented
> out for some years, but I can't quite trace all the logic...
> 
> Richard
> 
> On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 09:32 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > Update of bug #45956 (project denemo):
> > 
> >                   Status:                    None => Need Info              
> > 
> >     _______________________________________________________
> > 
> > Follow-up Comment #1:
> > 
> > I have installed it on a windows Vista machine, the Denemo path appears
> > appended to another path - in fact appended twice because, I presume of an
> > earlier install. The irony is that Denemo does not use the path at all, I've
> > deleted it from the path and Denemo continues to work fine.
> > What did happen on this install was that the feta.ttf and emmentaler.ttf 
> > fonts
> > were not intalled - I copied them to the C:\Windows\Fonts directory and all
> > worked.
> > Very bizarrely, on copying them to that directory, windows looked inside the
> > font file, extracted the internal name of the font and re-named the files to
> > be the actual name of the font.
> > 
> > What version of Windows did you have that experience - and are you quite 
> > sure
> > that there was something in the path that got erased?
> > Try altering the Denemo path that is there to say XXXDenemo and then
> > re-installing. Does it append?
> > 
> >     _______________________________________________________
> > 
> > Reply to this item at:
> > 
> >   <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45956>
> > 
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