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[relez]

I've made improvements to Cobra and to the installer based on your experiences.

I'm looking forward to another round of feedback from the next user. Please let me know how it goes, good or bad.

-Chuck

Ok, i tried and in VS2008 Shell + Admin profile, it works fine.... with guest user profile i get an error as in your changelog.

[Charles]

Cool. The VS 2008 command line may no longer be necessary as I have added its normal location for gacutil.exe to the places that the installer searches.

[Charles]

I have updated the installer to work on the Mac/Linux/Unix side using Novell Mono 2.0 (1.9 will probably work well too).

I also retested on the Windows side.

[agustech]

Here is my own experience with the tool:

- Some international Windows instalations do not have 'Program Files' folder. (I have tried to fix that with patch attached)
- if svn is not installed it throws an unhandled exception. Most of us use tortoiseSVN or similar tools (fixed with patch attached too)

HTH

P.S. Keep the great work!!

UPDATE... could not attach any extension so I will add a ticket an post it there...
http://cobra-language.com/trac/cobra/ticket/56

[Charles]

Tickets are preferable anyway.

This is good feedback. The patch has been applied and the ticket closed.

Using Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles is definitely the way to go and I switched up the code to check this first before bothering with searching the drives.

Also I tightened up the exception catching code to just wrap what was expected might throw (just one line):

#
        # record "svn info" in the installation directory
        try 
            output = .runCommand('svn', 'info', false)
        catch ex as SystemException
            # user could be on TortoiseSVN
            print 'svn is not installed or it is not in the PATH. ' + ex.message
        success
            svnInfo = '[versionDir][slash]svn_info.text'
            print 'writing  :', svnInfo
            File.writeAllText(svnInfo, output)

Thanks for the patch.