Re: E 0.9.3 release?

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Commit notice on subversion r793, available at <
> http://www.erights.org/download/0-9-3/>
>
> --------------------------------
> Candidate 0.9.3b release
>
> Per advice at
> http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/2011-January/013712.html
> removed the suppression of "-Werror" and the bogus "(int)" cast. Instead,
> changed virtually all "char" declarations to "unsigned char". It compiles
> fine now with no warnings.
>
> Since
>   * E does not auto-install on Windows 7 (and probably never did, and
>     perhaps not on Vista either),
>   * no one is actually using this Windows-specific installation feature
>     http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/2011-January/013713.html
>     (setting up the registry, etc),
>   *
> I am deleting the src/csrc/utils, src/csrc/win32, and src/csrc/win32/setup
> directories and changing the code (src/esrc/scripts/setup.e-awt) and
> documentation (src/csrc/setup/README.txt) that depends on them to no longer
> do so. Also changing the Makefiles so that making no longer traverses into
> the deleted directories.
> --------------------------------
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2 January 2011 06:12, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Thomas,
>> > In order to warm up the old release muscles, I tried building a new
>> 0.9.3a
>> > candidate on Windows <http://www.erights.org/download/0-9-3/>. (E does
>> not
>> > cross build. The binary for each platform must be built on that
>> platform.)
>> [...]
>> > Windows Vista or 7 problems (i.e., since Windows XP):
>> > I can build E fine on Windows 7. However, when I try to install it on
>> > Windows 7, I get a bunch of (quite sensible) permissions violation
>> errors
>> > when I try to manipulate the registry. No annoying Windows 7 "do you
>> really
>> > mean it?" monologue boxes, just errors. However, when I install this
>> same
>> > binary on Windows XP, it works as well as it always did.
>> >
>> > If anyone knows of a simple fix to get old cygwin/gcc C code for
>> > manipulating the XP registry to work again on Windows 7, please let me
>> know.
>> > Assuming this doesn't work out easily, I'm inclined to pull all the
>> registry
>> > magic from the E installation. Would this inconvenience anyone? Does
>> anyone
>> > still care about, for example, the binding of the ".e" extension to the
>> E
>> > launching behavior?
>>
>> That's no problem for us. I hadn't even realised there was a Windows
>> installer!
>
>
> Prior to today's commit, it was documented in the README.txt file.
> Basically, it said to do an automatic install on Windows either by double
> clicking e.jar or by running "java -jar e.jar" on a command line.
>
>
>
>> I've seen Windows devs at work install E, and as I recall
>> the steps they use are:
>>
>> 1. unpack the E release zip archive somewhere
>> 2. set the E_HOME system variable to that location
>> 3. replace swt.jar with a different one (64-bit issue?)
>>
>
> I'm running E fine on a 64-bit Windows 7 system without replacing the
> swt.jar file. Can you say more about this issue?
>
>
>>
>> Programs are always run using a .bat file launcher because there are
>> always arguments to pass (to set the Java memory limits and add extra
>> jars to classpath).
>>
>
> Hmmm. I've generally been using the "rune" bash script, as supported by
> Cygwin, rather than the rune.bat script. Perhaps the rune.bat script is
> stale? It should correspond closely to the "rune" bash script.
>

I should have looked before speculating on that last part. No, rune,bat is
much simpler than rune and has much less functionality.



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>     --MarkM
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    Cheers,
    --MarkM

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