Re: [Gretl-devel] Installation on Windows

Am 22.12.2007 16:28, Allin Cottrell schrieb: > Thoughts based on some quick research. > > When the gretl installer is being run on Windows there are three main > cases to consider: > > 1. gretl is being installed by someone who has admin (or at least > "power user") rights, and this person will also be using gretl. > I believe that's the most likely case, at least in the American > academic sphere, and in this case what we do currently is fine. Yes. > > 2. gretl is being installed by an admin user, on behalf of someone > else who doesn't have admin rights but who will actually use the > progam. In this case the install should go OK, though as Sven points > out it will redundantly create a gretl userdir tree for the admin > user. When the ordinary user runs the program there may be some > permissions issues on saving settings. This should be fixable without > too much difficulty. Great. As I said, the scenario with one person acting both as admin for the install and as a normal user for normal work is maybe not that widespread, but it's the way it _should_ be done. (And the world would be a better place with much less malware floating around ... :-) > > 3. An unprivileged user is trying to install gretl on their own > account. This will fail at present. It's possible we could set > things up so that it'll work: don't install gretl into PROGRAMFILES > but into a per-user directory; don't attempt to write registry keys > under "Local Machine", only "Current User". > > MSDN says: > > "During setup your application should check to see whether the > application is being installed by a user account having the privileges > to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. If your setup is not run by a user > with write permissions to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, the application should > notify the user with a message such as, "You are not allowed to > install this application for all users on this machine; do you want to > install this application for personal use?" All users should be able > to install an application for their own use." > > Conversely, if the user does have admin status we could ask: "You are > installing gretl as an administrator; will you be using the program > yourself?" -- and create a userdir tree only if the answer to that is > Yes. > > I'm not sure yet how much of this can be done with the current version > of Inno Setup, but I'm trying to figure that out. Wow, that would be the luxury version of installation -- actually I think that would go in the direction of using gretl w/o actually installing it. Think portable gretl on a USB stick. As I said, I'm not sure it's worth your effort and I'm certainly not asking for it, but it sure would be cool... -sven (writing too many gretl emails today) _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel

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