Please upload: mined-2000.16-0

Mon Feb 14 20:20:00 GMT 2011

Am 13.02.2011 23:25, schrieb Karl M:
>>>>> Date: 2011年2月13日 23:18:18 +0100
>> From: Thomas
>> Subject: Re: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0
>>> The reason is that, at least on Windows 7, there is no key called
>>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations.
>>>>>> The result is that a user of Windows 7 gets a postinstall warning from
>>> setup.exe because the mined postinstall script returns a non-zero exit
>>> code.
>>>>>>>>> Corinna
>> Hi, thanks for the notice.
>> Actually I'm aware that there is this postinstall return problem also in
>> Windows XP and I've fixed it but the code base isn't quite ready yet for
>> the next release - can it still wait for a short while?
>> On the other hand, if the key doesn't exist because the mechanism has
>> changed in Windows 7, I'm not sure what to do because I don't have W7
>> myself for testing - any advice by someone? Just some other key name
>> perhaps?
> Why is mined by default messing with this? Isn't this something that the user should run if he/she wants to alter file associations/context menu stuff?
I once discussed this with Andy and felt encouraged to do so - after 
all, non-expert users will not normally make such an entry because there 
is no tool to do it easily (I think).
But I'll reconsider and maybe confine it to the stand-alone package.
Whatever update, please allow for a few days...
Thomas
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