Re: [pure-lang-users] ANN: Pure 0.6 released

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Lunney wrote:
> On the machine where I'm a normal user, it doesn't have permission to
> edit the global environmental variables, so there's an error.

Unfortunately the freeware MSI builder I'm using (AdvancedInstaller,
which is the only half-decent freeware GUI-based MSI builder that I
could find) doesn't provide many configuration options there. AFAICT,
the MSI must be configured for either single-user or admin installation,
and the environment variables to edit must then be set up accordingly. I
see no way to tweak the MSI configuration in a more intelligent way, or
based on user interaction. The full AdvancedInstaller software
presumably has all those features, but I'm not going to shell out any
money just to build a stupid MSI.

> I presume there are user-level environmental variables in Windows?

Yes, actually the MSI was set up to edit the user environment up to Pure
0.5, but that caused other issues, as reported by Rob Hubbard. So I
changed it to use the system variables instead, which is more convenient
if you want to do an admin install for all users and then go on to work
from an ordinary user account. I thought that AdvancedInstaller would be
clever enough to find a way to make that work with a user install, too,
but obviously that was too optimistic. ;-)

> I guess there are a few ways round this:
> 1. Require Administrator access to install
> 2. Automatically choose whether to edit the global or user variables
> depending on who is running the installer
> 3. Allow a "For all users" or "For this user" install, and act appropriately.

Well, the only option that the AdvancedInstaller freeware seems to offer
is #1, so I'm going to fix the MSI accordingly for the next release.
That will no doubt raise many complaints about not being to able to
install Pure as non-admin, but then so be it.

> Hope this helps,

Yes, thanks for reporting the issue. :)

Cheers,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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