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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 12075] New: Required disk space of Windows installer is 0kB

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           Summary: Required disk space of Windows installer is 0kB
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: installer
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: code dawg.eu



This was reported in the 2.065 beta 3 forum.

http://forum.dlang.org/post/vzlcguxkdrfgirdnwqed forum.dlang.org

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Brad Anderson <eco gnuk.net> changed:

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The fix for this is to just use the option to embed the zip file in the
installer instead of using the download method.  The space required figure
number will still be somewhat off because we embed a zip file that we then
extract ourselves rather than letting NSIS take care of embedding and
compressing files.

Another option is to just get rid of the Required Disk Space line (SpaceTexts
in NSIS script can do it). I prefer this one since DMD isn't big enough that
the average user needs to care about how much disk space it takes up.

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It would be generally preferable to only embed those files that are actually
needed for a Windows installation, not the whole dmd.zip.

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 It would be generally preferable to only embed those files that are actually
 needed for a Windows installation, not the whole dmd.zip.


Is it difficult to embed zip files?
Ideally we could simply use the dmd.windows.zip generated by
create_dmd_release.
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.0-b3.windows.zip 15.2MB

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 It would be generally preferable to only embed those files that are actually
 needed for a Windows installation, not the whole dmd.zip.


 
 Is it difficult to embed zip files?
 Ideally we could simply use the dmd.windows.zip generated by
 create_dmd_release.
 http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.0-b3.windows.zip 15.2MB


Nope, it already supports doing that actually. You just comment out the
"!define Download" near the top and have zip files in place for it to snag.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/blob/master/windows/dinstaller.nsi#L146

What I meant though is using NSIS's "File" to include the files rather than
including a zip file with everything already included.  If there is a directory
dmd.windows.zip is made from we'd ideally just "File /r <path>" that directory
and then we'd have a non-downloading installer that only includes the relevant
portions, has a true Space Required amount, and would actually be smaller
because NSIS can do LZMA compression.

This would also fix the problem of ensuring the uninstall only removes files it
installed itself (there are readymade solutions for this as long as you are
using NSIS's built in file embedding).

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