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bug #23776: Windows installer 0.19.2 has problems on win2k

Submitter:  Adam Fedor <fedor>
Submitted:  Sat 05 Jul 2008 03:59:08 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Packaging Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Bug Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  fedor
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 13 Nov 2008 04:04:43 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Problems have been fixed in the most recent 0.20.3 installer, which works on w2k.

Adam Fedor <fedor>
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Wed 09 Jul 2008 12:00:30 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Given that w2k is still supported by Microsoft and is still widely used, I think it's reasonable to expect that GNUstep should be installable there.

Gregory John Casamento <gcasa>
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Tue 08 Jul 2008 11:50:33 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I too think it is a packaging issue or an msys issue (the crashes). Sicne using both the old environment and the newe one, I installed current tarballs,; so it is not something which is in -core.

The icon problem instead could be w2k/xp feature dependent...

Riccardo Mottola <rmottola>
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Mon 07 Jul 2008 02:20:33 PM UTC, comment #3: 

0.19.2 has gnustep-back-0.13.2
0.9.1 has 0.13.0

I think it's more a packaging issue though I'm still investigating.

Adam Fedor <fedor>
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Sat 05 Jul 2008 10:33:55 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Could you please check which back versions those two release shipped with? That way we can try to find out what changes in back that could result in these differnces. As it works fine for XP it is most likely that we now use some more advanced Windows function that is not precent in Win2000.

Is it possible to get a back trace from the crash? That would help to find out whether that is related to any of the other listed issues.

Does thsi also happen when recompiling GNUstep from scratch on a Win2000 machine?

The only code change that I could find that could result in the black background was the one from 2008-02-14.

Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer>
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Sat 05 Jul 2008 04:00:35 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Also - installer works fine in XP.

Adam Fedor <fedor>
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Sat 05 Jul 2008 03:59:08 PM UTC, original submission:  

Programs crash.  Also icons and other images show a black rather than white/transparent background.  This problem does not occur with installer 0.9.1.

To replicate: install 0.19.2 system and core installers, then install SystemPreferences installer and try to run SystemPreferences.
Result: bad icons and occational crashes.

Adam Fedor <fedor>
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