From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1664 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2011 20:20:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 1655 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2011 20:20:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (HELO moutng.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:20:12 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dslb-088-073-007-211.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.73.7.211]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Ldqml-1QXFLG0WXb-00icKL; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:20:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4D598E78.5000002@towo.net> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:20:00 -0000 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0 References: <0M3MGG-1NSYIM09lw-00rakK@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> <20110213163515.GB20855@calimero.vinschen.de>,<4D5858AA.8030502@towo.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00359.txt.bz2 Am 13.02.2011 23:25, schrieb Karl M: > > > >> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple