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[mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>]

Where do these scripts and/or source files for the Windows installers live?
I can't seem to find them.

Mik


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:00 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah. Looks like it can be done. Gonna have to learn the scripting
> language to do this, but I think this makes way more sense than the hoops I
> likely would have had to jump through to do this via qt.
>
> Give me a few days to figure this out.
>
> Mik
> On Aug 24, 2013 2:58 PM, "Philip Lee" <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Good idea. Yes, I know you can run scripts with the NSIS installer. Check
>> into that and let me know if it looks good or bad.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:53 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it may be too late by that point, but I will look into it. My
>>> other thought is maybe we can do something with the installer? If we could
>>> move these dialogs into that, all the problems go away. It would also allow
>>> us to keep the very specific windows stuff isolated.
>>>
>>> I guess I'll start researching if that can be done and how to do it if
>>> it can.
>>>
>>> Mik
>>> On Aug 24, 2013 2:18 PM, "Philip Lee" <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is not exactly pretty, but can we start the event loop and,
>>>> instead of bringing up the MainWindow directly, bring up some little
>>>> upgrade dialog that starts the main window when it exits?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:01 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For this release, yes. After this release, that information will be
>>>>> available in the registry and we can skip the prompt and file browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mik
>>>>> On Aug 24, 2013 12:49 PM, "Philip Lee" <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this the (ideal) process for upgrading on windows?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Ask user where old installation is.
>>>>>> 2) Copy old database into new installation.
>>>>>> 3) Start up as normal and all the migrations happen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm slowly working on getting the Windows upgrades working the way I
>>>>>>> expected them to work. I actually have the v1.2.x databases being properly
>>>>>>> upgraded.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The v2.0.x databases are proving to be more challenging, for all
>>>>>>> that the operations are theoretically easier. In short, I cannot figure out
>>>>>>> how to copy the old database into place. For a lot of reasons (most of them
>>>>>>> involving prompts, file browsers, etc.), I cannot do this until the
>>>>>>> MainWindow is instantiated and qApp->exec() is called. It seems mucking
>>>>>>> with the database file after MainWindow has been instantiated causes a core
>>>>>>> dump.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anybody have a clever idea on how to do this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mik
>>>>>>>
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