[OTR-dev] Help needed with pidgin-otr Windows (NSIS) installer

[Andrew Vineyard]

Nevermind. Not as easy as I thought it would be. Still, I like a
challenge, and will continue looking.

On 4/5/2013 5:46 AM, Andrew Vineyard wrote:
> I've messed around with NSIS a lot. While I can't say I know for certain
> that I know everything about NSIS, I can certainly take a look and
> figure it out. Shouldn't be too difficult though. Just have to configure
> it so that if it doesn't find anything, it'll then ask. Simple
> IfFileExists kind of argument in NSIS.
> 
> On 4/5/2013 5:27 AM, otr-dev-request at lists.cypherpunks.ca wrote:
> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:06:39 -0400
>> From: Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca>
>> Subject: [OTR-dev] Help needed with pidgin-otr Windows (NSIS)
>> 	installer
>> To: otr-dev at lists.cypherpunks.ca
>> Message-ID: <20130404150639.GF12096 at thunk.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
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>>
>> Now and again, some Windows users point out that the pidgin-otr Windows
>> installer doesn't know what to do if pidgin is installed in an unusual
>> place (and doesn't have a registry entry).
>>
>> Ideally, it would ask the user where it is (in interactive mode) or take
>> a command-line option (in batch mode).
>>
>> Does anyone know NSIS well enough to quickly make a patch to the
>> GetPidginInstPath function in
>> pidgin-otr/packaging/windows/pidgin-otr.nsi to support this?
>>
>> http://otr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=otr/pidgin-otr;a=blob;f=packaging/windows/pidgin-otr.nsi;h=fdcd74db93874e376252fbc140b840ebbcf56529;hb=HEAD
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>    - Ian
>>
>>
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