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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Here's my attempt at a straightforward installer which I believe meets your requirements without inventing a whole new distribution of perl or gcc:
      http://stennie.org/camelpack/ [stennie.org]

    I picked one combination (and listed some alternatives considered) but the approach should be easily adaptable and maintainable.

    Cheers,
    Stephen
    • I managed to get it to compile after adding the ISX Download DLL files to the same directory as the camelpack.iss file.

      During installation, I only checked the mingw installation, to save some time.
      Installation failed, it couldn't find the file it thought it had downloaded to the tmp directory.

      I tried to uninstall, that failed with
      'an attempt was made to expand the "app" constant but Setup didn't create the "app" dir'
      so the program (listed as "2006.1" in add/remove programs) is still there.

      Exactly how did yo
      • Hey fireartist .. thx for your feedback, I'll test this out. Looks like I may have messed up the uninstall options on the uploaded version. There's no actual app to remove at the moment (it's calling other installers, which have their own uninstallers) .. so there shouldn't be an add/remove entry.

        Regarding inno/isx, I installed:
          - Innosetup
          - IStool
          - IStool download DLL .. then did any compiling/editing via ISTool. fwiw, ISTool seemed to have the download DLL properly registered wit
        • FYI, have uploaded a corrected version with the "uninstall" options removed.

          If you need to remove a bogus uninstall entry, the path in regedit to delete is:

          HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{2C936648 -0116-46EA-9398-49258B6325C3}

          Cheers,
          Stephen

    • Since my Microsoft Action Pack just arrived, I'm setting up a fresh installation of XP inside a new, clean, virtual image. I should have a confirmation of rejection in a few hours.
    • OK, having had time to install it, here's an official report card.

      1. Pass

      2. Pass

      3. Pass (with comment)

      While I'm a bit iffy about not having the other installers embedded, it did work just fine, and since the goal is to install from CPAN, requiring a network connection for the installation isn't unreasonable. So Pass.

      4. Pass

      5. Pass

      6. Fail (with comment)

      Running the installation inside the image worked, but the CPAN.pm first-time configuration process failed utterly. After 2 hours of debugging and 4 new RT bug
      • After talking with fireartist regarding vanillaPerl, it would appear that with the new Windows firewall + other reasons there's no way we'd ever want FTP to _not_ use passive.

        So the recommendation is to set FTP_PASSIVE=1 at the system level in.

        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

      • OK, have updated the installer to set FTP_PASSIVE by default; please retest.

        Cheers,
        Stephen
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