Installing Valentina

[william humphrey]

That's very nice. I hope it is incorporated in the next release.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin
> <ruslan_zasukhin at valentina-db.com> wrote:
>>> Second step is required by rules of LiveCode.
>> Our installer do not know location of that folders.
>>
> Firstly, of course your installer knows where that folder is, although
> it's not important because for Valentina you don't have to trash the
> entire folder just 4 bundles which your Installer knows exactly where
> they are because it checks for them. I can only assume William trashes
> the My LiveCode folder because it's a lot faster than finding the 4
> bundles in question and manually trashing them.
>
> In your installer you have this function (I'm on Mac so I've only
> shown the Mac specifics):
>
> FUNCTION CheckExist inFile, inPath
>
>   set the itemdel to slash
>   put item -1 of inFile into plugin
>   put inPath & slash & plugin into resCheck
>
>   IF the platform is "MacOS" THEN
>     IF there is a folder resCheck THEN
>       Message resCheck & cr & " already exists. Please trash it
> manually and run this stack again."
>     ELSE
>       return false
>     END IF
>   ELSE
>    --the non Mac OS part of the FUNCTION below here
>    --but revDelete is cross platform so I'd expect you could do the
> same for Win,Linux
>
> When I run your installer right now I get this output:
>
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Externals/Database Drivers/dbvalentina5
>  already exists. Please trash it manually and run this stack again.
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Externals/v4rev.bundle
>  already exists. Please trash it manually and run this stack again.
> Externals list already updated.
> Database Drivers list already updated.
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Runtime/Mac OS
> X/Universal/Externals/Database Drivers/dbvalentina5
>  already exists. Please trash it manually and run this stack again.
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Runtime/Mac OS
> X/Universal/Externals/v4rev.bundle
>  already exists. Please trash it manually and run this stack again.
> Externals list already updated.
> Database Drivers list already updated.
>
> NOTE that it states there are 4 bundles that I have to manually trash
> and your installer knows exactly their location. This is extremely
> tedious and a completely unnecessary step!
>
> So I did a quick modification to your Installer's script (again Mac specific):
>
> FUNCTION CheckExist inFile, inPath
>
>    set the itemdel to slash
>    put item -1 of inFile into plugin
>    put inPath & slash & plugin into resCheck
>
>    IF the platform is "MacOS" THEN
>       IF there is a folder resCheck THEN
>          Message resCheck & cr & " already exists. It's OK I'll trash
> it for you."
>          revDeleteFolder resCheck --DELETE the bundle you know exists
>          IF there is a folder resCheck THEN --double check the bundle is trashed
>             Message " Moving to trash failed! ***Please trash it
> manually and run this stack again.***"
>          ELSE
>             Message " It's now in the trash. You can retrieve it from
> the trash if you need it."
>             return false
>          END IF
>       ELSE
>          return false
>       END IF
>    ELSE
>    --the non Mac OS part of the FUNCTION below here
>    --but revDelete is cross platform so I'd expect you could do the
> same for Win,Linux
>
> Now when I run your modified Installer the output is:
>
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Externals/Database Drivers/dbvalentina5
>  already exists. It's OK I'll trash it for you.
>  It's now in the trash. You can retrieve it from the trash if you need it
> Copy plugin: /Users/nsa/Paradigma Software/V4REV_5/dbvalentina5 Successful!
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Externals/v4rev.bundle
>  already exists. It's OK I'll trash it for you.
>  It's now in the trash. You can retrieve it from the trash if you need it
> Copy plugin: /Users/nsa/Paradigma Software/V4REV_5/v4rev.bundle Successful!
> Externals list already updated.
> Database Drivers list already updated.
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Runtime/Mac OS
> X/Universal/Externals/Database Drivers/dbvalentina5
>  already exists. It's OK I'll trash it for you.
>  It's now in the trash. You can retrieve it from the trash if you need it
> Copy plugin: /Users/nsa/Paradigma Software/V4REV_5/dbvalentina5 Successful!
> /Users/nsa/ednorton/My LiveCode/Runtime/Mac OS
> X/Universal/Externals/v4rev.bundle
>  already exists. It's OK I'll trash it for you.
>  It's now in the trash. You can retrieve it from the trash if you need it
> Copy plugin: /Users/nsa/Paradigma Software/V4REV_5/v4rev.bundle Successful!
> Externals list already updated.
> Database Drivers list already updated.
>
> Notice the script know exactly where the bundles are, can easily trash
> them automatically then proceed to successfully install the latest
> version of each bundle in the correct location. If for some reason the
> script can not automatically trash the bundle it will report you still
> need to do it manually.
>
> To be clear I simply replaced this one line of your Installer script:
>
> Message resCheck & cr & " already exists. Please trash it manually and
> run this stack again."
>
> with these 8 lines (be careful of line wraps):
>
> Message resCheck & cr & " already exists. It's OK I'll trash it for you."
> revDeleteFolder resCheck --DELETE the bundle you know exists
>      IF there is a folder resCheck THEN --double check the bundle is trashed
>         Message " Moving to trash failed! ***Please trash it manually
> and run this stack again.***"
>     ELSE
>         Message " It's now in the trash. You can retrieve it from the
> trash if you need it."
>         return false
>     END IF
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