Previously, the installer downloaded Java and installed a Desktop
shortcut to the downloaded installer. However the old download
URL is dead now and NSIS does not support the new https URLs
without a plugin.
Anyways it is not much of a difference in convenience whether the
installer downloads an installer or opens a browser with the
download location.
It has been considered to switch from NSIS to msitools[1]. However
both technologies are strange to all current YaCy devs and NSIS
still seems to be less complex and more widely adopted.
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools
I could only test this change in WINE because the developer virtual
machine from microsoft[2] freezed always soon after boot under QEMU.
[2] https://developer.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
The browser did not open under WINE.
The https://reproducible-builds.org project invests a lot of work
to make builds reproducible. This is a security property. It allows
to compare the build of binaries from different builder machines.
If they are identical, it means that either the builds have not
been manipulated or an attacker managed to attack all builder
machines in exactly the same way.
One problem that the reproducible-builds project often sees is
that projects include the build time in their binaries. This
makes builds unreproducible for apparently no reason. The build
date should not be of interest since binaries built on different
dates but from the same source code should not be different.
Thus I decided to remove the build date instead of re-implementing
the functionality without the GitRev task. Anyways the reported
date was not the build date but the date of the last git commit
which is even less informative. The git commit ID would have
information value but should only be relevant for "nightly builds".
not use any programm-path.
This should match more installations in different paths and also running
YaCy as service (prunsrv).
This commit was contributed and tested on Windows7 by René.
crawling at 3gb free space by default and informs user what to do. so
1gb can be used by yacy at full feature. 30gb warning comes quite often
on installation time. users are confused about it and may never reach
it.
configure java in firewall for full access. this is the usual config if the user manually accepts java for the firewall.
otherwise if a port is specified, windows will not ask on any port change. this would break yacy and other java applications if they run not on the specified port. this would not be an expected behaviour for the user.
firewall config may fail for win64 systems (system32 is specified in path)
git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@7711 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
- remove firewall-handling for WinXP (can only open for JRE not for
special port)
- Vista/Win 7: open port 1900 for communication with router (uPnP)
git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@7710 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
- add support for Windows Firewall on Win XP (SP2/SP3), Vista and Win 7 (open port 8090) - this should cover almost every Windows installation at home
git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@7589 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
- check Windows-Version on startup, support only Windows 2000 and newer (necessary for Sun-JRE and as preparation for firewall section)
- little changes in JRE section handling
git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@7581 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
- detect JRE at startup, showing install-option depends on result
- hide window for external call "attrib"
- some cleanup and restructure for readability
git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@7578 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
unfortunately some users seem to forget to manually install the downloaded Java runtime and therefore could not start YaCy
- added concept to always distribute the latest Java version via external php script
git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@7076 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
Michael Peter Christen