Bug #96621 for Perl-Dist-Strawberry: Cannot install strawberry perl 64-bit 5.18.2.2 windows 7

Sat Jun 21 19:09:09 2014 aaron.thomas+reply [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Cannot install strawberry perl 64-bit 5.18.2.2 windows 7
Date:	Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:09:00 -0700
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Aaron's Email" <aaron.thomas+reply [...] gmail.com>

After trying to run the installer, I see: "Computing space requirements", and a pop up appears: "Invalid Drive: C:\" I have no C: drive on my system. Has the C: volume letter been hardcoded in the installer, instead of using %SystemDrive% environment variable? Or %ProgramFiles% or some other legal method of discovering which volumes actually exist, rather than badly assuming C:?

Sun Jun 22 03:45:17 2014 kmx [...] volny.cz - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #96621] Cannot install strawberry perl 64-bit 5.18.2.2 windows 7
Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2014 09:45:02 +0200
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	kmx <kmx [...] volny.cz>

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> After trying to run the installer, I see: "Computing space requirements", > and a pop up appears: > > "Invalid Drive: C:\" > > I have no C: drive on my system.

Could you please try strawberry 5.20.0.1 MSI installer? It was redesigned and should hanlde your scenario. Show quoted text

> Has the C: volume letter been hardcoded in the installer, instead of using > %SystemDrive% environment variable? Or %ProgramFiles% or some other legal > method of discovering which volumes actually exist, rather than badly > assuming C:?

We are using WiX toolkit for creating MSI installer and it is not that straghtforward as you suggest. However as mentioned above we have changed MSI guts in 5.20.x series in hope to fix this kind of failures. -- kmx

Sun Jun 22 03:45:18 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun Jun 22 04:02:08 2014 aaron.thomas+reply [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #96621] Cannot install strawberry perl 64-bit 5.18.2.2 windows 7
Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2014 01:01:59 -0700
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Aaron's Email" <aaron.thomas+reply [...] gmail.com>

Ok I'll try it, thanks,

Wed Jun 25 15:25:34 2014 aaron.thomas+reply [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #96621] Cannot install strawberry perl 64-bit 5.18.2.2 windows 7
Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:25:23 -0700
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Aaron's Email" <aaron.thomas+reply [...] gmail.com>

It works fine, thanks for the suggestion,

Wed Sep 17 10:51:44 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'