Re: Yet more Microsoft licensing issues
Roger Binns <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael C. wrote: | 1) Dropping Windows support would not be acceptable. Although you may | not use it anymore, many of us use it exclusively, myself included. Note that this would be redistribution of binaries. The source would still work fine. And you or anyone else is welcome to volunteer to take over packaging the Windows version with whatever workarounds are needed. | 2) As far as the "mscvcr71.dll" library, the simple fix appears to be | to install MS Media Player version 9.0 or above. There are multiple versions of the vc71 dlls, and they are supposed to be installed in application directories, not in system32 or similar. InnoSetup does have scripting (Pascal based) so code could be written to scan the system and copy the dlls to the BitPim install dir, verifying that the version is recent enough. However gdiplus is the more pressing problem since we should switch to newer wxPythons sooner than Python versions. I do have several versions in the winsxs directory but that is for XP only - still a problem for older operating systems. It is extremely likely that users will have to download it but thankfully Microsoft have a URL for it unlike the vc71 dlls. So is anyone going to volunteer to write some InnoSetup Pascal code that does the following: - - takes a filename and minimum version - - looks to see if it is the bitpim install directory, and if so returns - - searches the system for the filename and most recent version and copies to the bitpim install dir, then returns - - brings up a specified page in the online help (exec winhelp ?) This all possibly needs its own page in InnoSetup to explain what is happening as grovelling through the hard disk may take a while. Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFkJTNmOOfHg372QQRAn2UAJ9APC0eMeHnFamI5/GhQMNPNskuLwCguHqq vB8tnOf0EXkFxHIT4tPzlBI= =xugB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV