[Zope-dev] Minor windows intaller bug and a question

Lennart Regebro regebro at nuxeo.com
Thu Feb 5 11:10:26 EST 2004


From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism at plope.com>
> > Installing 2.7.0rc2 windows zope installer, i noticed that it uses
> > hard-coded value for instance directory. The proposed value is
> > "C:\Zope-Instance". However, some users (me :) don't have C: drive. For
> > some reasons windows choose G: letter for boot drive and (unlike
> > not-boot drives) this letter can't be changed. Most installers
> > autodetect this situation but Zope installer not.
>
> You can change the instance dir manually, no?  You mean it's a bug that
> it doesn't detect your system drive and instead always uses C as the
> default, right?  If so, yes, I agree, but likely it won't get fixed too
> soon as it's so minor.

I find the default value strange. The old installer put it into the program
files directory, which seem to me to be the reasonable place. Opinions on
this?




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