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

[Richard Shann]

Ah, this goes quite a way to explaining what is going on - I think I'll
have to make sure I not only remove .denemo-x.x.x before trying a new
install, but also delete feta*.ttf, emmentaler*.ttf and Denemo.ttf from
the C:\Windows\Fonts directory, as they are left there after installing
a previous version.
This also may mean that you have no need to try the fix to denemo.nsi,
that, in fact, all will be working ok once denemo.nsi has the
functionality it had pre 1.2.4 (I know of at least one Windows 8 user
who installed the 1.2.4 successfully, presumably because the fonts had
already been installed by earlier versions).

Richard


On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 12:32 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I have been trying to attempt to merge our old stuff in gub with the
> new stuff that is being developed upstream. In doing this I failed I
> mixed this denemo.nsi file with an extremely old version and I did not
> know it. This may have been what was causing some issue. I replaced
> the denemo.nsi to be the one used before the 1.2.4 release and made
> the changes to the binary. I am updating the binary now.
> 
> 
> Jeremiah  
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> 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?
>         >
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