Le 23 mars 2018 �� 19:53, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> a ��crit :

Coincidentally I have returned to Windows for a short while so thought I should 

put my money where my mouth is and have a stab at this.  After a few hours trying with NSIS, 

I went searching for an alternative and Advanced Installer looked like a good chance.

https://www.advancedinstaller.com/feats-list.html

The important part of  (free) Basic Features  is "Windows 10/8/7/Vista and UAC installs"

Also further down are some CI options. 

After just the "Simple Installation" tutorial and experimenting a few hours I ironed out 

a potential solution uploaded for testing to http://www.mediafire.com/file/3g579bmzqspt8e1/BCPharoLauncher.msi

with the full build tree at  http://www.mediafire.com/file/5ijiww848lbkk7m/PharoLauncher%20Advanced%20Installer.zip

Links should be live for 30 days.

I've directly attached the much smaller installer-configuration file "PharoLauncher.aip". 

PharoLauncher was built with some minor changes from above... 

1. Download/extracted  http://files.pharo.org/platform/Pharo6.1-win.zip

2. Renamed  Pharo6.1    folder to  BCPharoLauncher

    Renamed  Pharo6.1.*  files to    PharoLauncher1.1.* 

3. Metacello new

       smalltalkhubUser: 'Pharo'

       project: 'PharoLauncher';

       configuration: 'PharoLauncher';

        load.  

     PharoLauncher hardResetPersistanceState: true.

     PhLDeploymentScript doAll. 

     PhLDeploymentScript  closeWindowsAndOpenLauncher.

     Smalltalk snapshot: true  andQuit: true. 

4. Moved the  image & changes  files into a subfolder "PerUserFiles"

5. Built  BCPharoLauncher.msi

I prefixed my initials to distinguish it from the current official PharoLauncher installer.

Hopefully this can be adopted as the official installer and they can be dropped off.

Key features:

a.  Provides a choice to install for "Everybody" (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Pharo\BCPharoLauncher\)
     or "Only for me" (i.e. C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Programs\Pharo\BCPharoLauncher\)
     per attached screen snapshot.

b.  Start the install as a Standard User and it escalates only as needed.

c.  The Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts run the following script...       

          // File: PharoLauncher.js

          // Author: Ben Coman 2018.03.24

          // Purpose: Facilitate each user to run a personal copy of PharoLauncher.image in their own data area.

          

          // Locations

          basename = "\\PharoLauncher1.1";

          WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");

          fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

          systemFolder = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".");

          vmFilename = systemFolder + "\\Pharo.exe"

          systemBasename = systemFolder + "\\PerUserFiles" + basename;

          userFolder = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Pharo");

          userFolder2 = userFolder + "\\PharoLauncher";

          userBasename = userFolder2 + basename;

          

          // Ensure user data folder exists for PharoLauncher

          if( ! fso.FolderExists(userFolder))

          { fso.CreateFolder(userFolder);

           fso.CreateFolder(userFolder2)

          }

          

          // If either  image or changes  files missing from user folder,  copy from system folder.  

          if( ! fso.FileExists(userBasename + ".image") || ! fso.FileExists(userBasename + ".changes")) 

          {

           //WScript.Echo("Setting up user environment");

           fso.CopyFile(systemBasename + ".image",    userBasename + ".image", true);

           fso.CopyFile(systemBasename + ".changes",  userBasename + ".changes", true);

          }

          

          // Start personal copy of PharoLauncher

          WshShell.Exec(vmFilename + " " + userBasename + ".image ��)