[izpack-devel] Vista

[Markus Schlegel]

Yeah, I can try things out. Our Vista is on a VMWare....

Klaus pointed out a good point: We start our installer out of a native
exe (we use an NSIS wrapper for this in order to have all data inside
the executable, but an other one would do the trick too).

As far as I can see, microsoft recommends the way of using a "manifest",
but I could not find a docu for this.

Of corse, you have the possibility of lauching the installer explicitely
as a (elevated) Superuser, but you have to think about it before
doubleclicking the installer's jar...

Look at the bugreports at sun's side, and then you know that you will
not get any support for this issue from the makers of java...


Markus


-----Original Message-----
From: izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de
[mailto:izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of miraodb
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:14 PM
To: izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [izpack-devel] Vista

Hi Markus,

that sounds good and shows that Micro$$$$ don't like to change much
things except the prices !!!
Ahahahah just kidding.

Anyhow, thanks for the docu note: I'll take that into account. There's
also another solution, with the panel that Hal developed you can act as
a superuser while installing. in that case we could probably avoid this
naming convention issue. However it has to be tested on Vista. After we
merge our changes could you please give it a try ?

Thanks,
Fabrice

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Schlegel" <markus.schlegel at pulinco.com>
To: <izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [izpack-devel] Vista

> Tested it last December on Vista. Shortcuts and registry entries work 
> well as far as I can see.
> Of corse, I tested only my installer and not a complete set of
features.
>
> What's left to do is documenting that the installer must contain
"setup"
> or "installer" in its name in order that vista knows it must elevate 
> to the SuperUser Access token.
>
> Maybe there ist a way of providing a "manifestfile" for it, but I 
> don't know how to do this.
>
> Markus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Elmar Grom
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:54 AM
> To: Izpack
> Subject: [izpack-devel] Vista
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> there is something else, that I think we need to keep on our agenda.
> Since Vista is now officially released it is time to find out if 
> IzPack still works properly on the new platform. In particular I am 
> concerned about shortcuts and Registry entries.
>
> If anyone on the list has access to a Vista machine or plans to get 
> one in the near future, please run a test and let us know what you
find.
> Some folks on the team might even suggest and/or prepare a set of 
> tests to run.
>
>       Elmar
>
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