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Re: [Denemo-devel] Problems with the window installer. Re: [bug #45956]
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Richard Shann |
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Re: [Denemo-devel] Problems with the window installer. Re: [bug #45956] Installer deletes system path. |
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Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:59:23 +0100 |
I've tested the 21st Sept mingw executable and it seems that the windows
crash has been fixed.
Unfortunately, I had introduced a regression in the Score Layout stuff
so that staffs couldn't be properly removed. I've fixed this now and
finished the enhancements (see separate email), so I'd be grateful for a
further build of mingw.
Richard
On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 09:33 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-09-19 at 09:45 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > I have a new binary for testing. I took the old 1.2.2. nsi file and
> > replaced the function (now I know it might not need replacing as you
> > said)
>
> I've installed this on a windows vista laptop after first uninstalling
> the earlier version, deleting the fonts denemo.ttf, feta*.ttf and
> emmentaler*.ttf and the ~/.denemo-*
> The program worked all fonts were found *and* the PATH environment
> variable had not been altered (denemo does not appear in it after
> installing, and the original contents are unchanged).
>
> So, all good news. However, I re-tested the bug that happens if you use
> the window decorations "x" to dismiss the dialog asking for the title of
> your piece, and it caused Denemo to crash. These decorations don't
> appear on my system (they are a theme thing I suspect). On the plus
> side, I think I have got to the bottom of this, and have checked in a
> fix which I hope will work on windows too.
>
> So if you can spin another binary I'll test this out.
>
> Richard
>
>
> >
> > Jeremiah
> >
> > On Sep 19, 2015 5:44 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > 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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> > > >
> > > > <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45956>
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