Re: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0

[Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>]

Am 13.02.2011 23:25, schrieb Karl M:
> > Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:18:18 +0100
> > From: Thomas
> > Subject: Re: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0
> > > The reason is that, at least on Windows 7, there is no key called
> > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations.
> > >
> > > The result is that a user of Windows 7 gets a postinstall warning from
> > > setup.exe because the mined postinstall script returns a non-zero exit
> > > code.
> > >
> > >
> > > Corinna
> > Hi, thanks for the notice.
> > Actually I'm aware that there is this postinstall return problem also in
> > Windows XP and I've fixed it but the code base isn't quite ready yet for
> > the next release - can it still wait for a short while?
> > On the other hand, if the key doesn't exist because the mechanism has
> > changed in Windows 7, I'm not sure what to do because I don't have W7
> > myself for testing - any advice by someone? Just some other key name
> > perhaps?
> Why is mined by default messing with this? Isn't this something that the user should run if he/she wants to alter file associations/context menu stuff?
I once discussed this with Andy and felt encouraged to do so - after 
all, non-expert users will not normally make such an entry because there 
is no tool to do it easily (I think).
But I'll reconsider and maybe confine it to the stand-alone package.

Whatever update, please allow for a few days...

Thomas

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