[daisy] Daisy Windows Installer

[Bruno Dumon]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:09 +0200, Marc Portier wrote:
> 
> > For now, I have some questions:
> > 
> > a) The daisy installation instruction specifies:
> > 
> >> Make sure that wherever you extract the download, none of the parent
> >> directories
> >> contains spaces in their names. For example, on Windows, do not
> >> extract Daisy inside
> >> your c:\Program Files directory.
> > 
> > What specifically is causing problems if the name of the directory
> > contains spaces? Can we overcome that or do I have to enforce these
> > restriction inside the installer?
> > 
> 
> the trouble with spaces in paths is related to them being not escaped
> properly in *.bat files which leads to the command interpreter thinking
> there are two separate arguments rather then one
> 
> so in essence this boils down to the tedious job of checking all those
> calls, and making sure proper escaping is in place... and never
> forgetting about it... (I'm unaware of any circumstances where the
> proper escaping sequence simply cannot be found)
> 
> I guess over years we've just learned that the lazy attitude of just
> preventing spaces in paths makes our life easier.
> (Blast, why didn't they just call it C:\ProgramFiles :-))
> 
> If you feel up to running the extra mile and checking all those calls,
> that would be great of course...

There were actual problems with spaces in the path, which caused us to
add that comment to the install instructions. I don't recall the exact
instances and whether they are still there.

It's very easy to check: just install Daisy in a path containing spaces
and see if it all works (using the default startup scripts).

P.S.: I've created an issue (DSY-317) with an idea to do something about
the wiki-needs-to-wait-for-repo problem. Won't help you in the short
term though, where Frank's solution can be used.

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