Re: [Denemo-devel] Windows-bug: Please test to reboot

[Richard Shann]

I have tested this on the windows partition of my box: it is sufficient
to log out and log back in to get the enviroment variable set, and
installing the program does not set it.
I have also verified that no message is seen in a DOS-box type console
when you run denemo.exe from the bin directory with the environment
variable not set. So that would seem to be some bug in libguile -
particularly the return code.
I'll close the bug reports now & look for a fix for the next release.
Thanks to Nils for his patient work with the VM machine.
We could have a news item when denemo.org is back up :-)
Richard
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 09:28 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> Having slept on it, I think that re-booting after installation probably
> will allow Denemo to run (still with the svg icon problem and some pango
> messages, but functional).
> I think the model of the problem is that setting a value in the registry
> at installation time does not set the environment variable, but tells a
> booting system which environment variables to set.
> The problem is then compounded by Guile not emitting the expected error
> message (which it always does do in my tests), and, worse still,
> returning an error code of 0. What that is about I can't imagine -
> perhaps just muddled error-reporting amongst our users.
> For the next release I'll look at setting the variable from within the
> program - people rightly are cautious of installers that touch the
> registry anyway.
> Richard
> 
> On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 23:58 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> > It may be simple, but has anyone with windows tried to reboot after 
> > installing Denemo?
> > Please say if it works then, or not.
> > 
> > Nils
> > 
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