[RFC] Idea how to fix PATH (and other) problems

[Saro Engels]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> An: kde-windows at kde.org
>> On 08.08.07 09:49:23, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>> Von: Andreas Pakulat
>>>> On 08.08.07 06:32:51, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>>>> As I only want to have one executable we'Ve two options
>>>>> a) 'unpack' the real executable into a temp directory and execute it
>>>>> b) execute it from memory
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd prefer the second, but for the start the first will work too
>>>> Uhm, but CreateProcess doesn't work for execut memory, or does it? I
>>>> mean that solution that PutHuhn presented for executing from memory
>>>> sounded extremly scary and I'd rather have the packager copy the
>> .dll's
>>>> around for the packages instead of that ugly solution.
>>>>
>>> But with your solution you don't solve anything - I as the user want to
>> execute my program by clicking on my executable and not on another one
>> somewhere else.
>>
>> Yes I do, I solve the problem of having to set PATH, which leaves the
>> problems of the app icon not embedded into the executable (I actually
>> couldn't care less wether the icon is in the executable or separate as
>> .ico) and the problem of two incompatible abi's from compilers so you
>> can't mix msvc and mingw libs/executables which can be solved in the
>> installer by only providing msvc or mingw apps depending on which qt is
>> chosen.
> Didn't you just want to unzip your packages? I don't think we can restrict a user to a specific qt version - what when a program is just available for one platform?
> There's no need to discuss about the app icon - it's really an easy task to fix.
> 
> Christian
> 
If we would use an nsis-installer instead of a zip package (which is 
pretty much the same as those installers can be unzipped with 7zip) we 
could restrict the user more easily. I already have some ideas how we 
can integrate this into the kdewin-installer without having to know to 
much of our packages structure.
And what would a user do if he e.g. chose the 'wrong' zip-package? The 
app would probably have to tell him that he chose the wrong thing right? 
And then he himself has to delete manually his package which could lead 
to severe problems.
But this is just an idea.
SaroEngels