[mpp-beta] mpp portable

[sod/sgt-d <sg...@so...>]

 

i am attempting to come up with "safe" upgrade installers for mpp
portable...

 

the installer is 100% safe and works if installed "stand alone", but now it
doesn't install correctly if you try to install if from inside the portable
apps menu system.  PA uses 7z.exe -oDIR to extract 7z exe files, the new mpp
portable (safe for upgrades) is no longer a 7z, it is an nsis exe.

 

i have tried all three public versions of the portable menu, none work.

 

major:

 

(11:23:26 AM) <+sgt-d> damn.  if i build an exe with nsis, i should be able
to pass any arguments to it that i want to instead of just /ncrc /s and /d.
i should be able to tell my exe to check the command line arguments that
were passed to it and to act on any of them that i want it to.

 

(11:25:14 AM) <+sgt-d> for example, portableapps.com - their start menu
installer relies heavily on the .exe file to be a .7z file.  well, i can't
use that because my installer has to be more careful --- during
re-installations it can't overwrite some files.  nsis is smart enough that
it can be coded to avoid an accidental overwrite where 7z would just
overwrite all files.

 

(11:27:02 AM) <+sgt-d> BUT...  portableapps.com is passing -oDIR to the .7z
exe, so in the end it is installed to the correct spot.  my nsis exe is
unable to receive, view, copy, or even show me what arguments were passed to
it, so it never sets $instdir/$outdir and so it never installs correctly
under portableapps.com.

 

minor:

 

(5:27:02 AM) <+sgt-d> stupid question time --- file /a --- why does file /a
NOT preserve the attributes of FOLDERS?  i have +r folders (to show icons
using desktop.ini) and the +r is not being preserved when using file /a.

 

/sgt