Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32: Whole redesign of the NSIS installer, please review and comment

[Loris Degioanni <loris.degioanni@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd really like to see WinPcap 3.1 instead WinPcap 3.0 inside the 
Ethereal installer. It has many fixes, improvements and additional features.
We plan to release 3.1 in a short time, but I'm not sure we'll be able 
to do it before Ethereal 0.10.12 (which if I understand well will happen 
tuesday?).

Loris


Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> I've just checked in an almost complete redesign of the Win32 NSIS 
> installer.
>
> Things changed (hopefully didn't forgot anything):
>
> Installer:
> - Installer now includes and installs WinPcap 3.0 (with detection, see 
> below)
> - Install Sections are grouped now
> - New Separate page to select additional tasks like: icons, file 
> extensions ...
> - New Separate page for WinPcap detection/installation
> - Start WinPcap "NPF" service doesn't require a reboot
>
> Uninstaller:
> - New Uninstall sections page (uninstall, settings, plugins, WinPcap)
> - If uninstallation selected, plugins will now be completely uninstalled 
> (all versions, not only the current one)
> - If selected, uninstallation of WinPcap
>
>
> WinPcap installer:
> I found it strange for quite a while that Ethereal didn't include the 
> WinPcap installer. I've added the currently released 3.0 installer, 
> which will be copied into the Program Files dir and called from there if 
> the "WinPcap installation" check box is selected.
>
> The installer tries to detect if and which WinPcap version is currently 
> installed. It uses the uninstall registry key to do this, which might 
> fail for prehistoric versions prior to 2.3.
>
> The installer screen will select installation by default if a 2.x 
> version was detected or WinPcap wasn't detected at all.
> If anything other than a 2.x version was detected (e.g. 3.x), 
> installation will not be selected.
>
> In either case, the user can overwrite this default value at will, e.g. 
> keeping an old 2.x version or overwriting a newer 3.x one.
>
> If installation was selected (by user or by default) a previously 
> existing WinPcap version will be uninstalled first by calling the 
> uninstall program.
>
>
> Conclusion:
> I've done extensive testing and things should be bullet proof, however 
> there are too many possibilities in the world...
>
> I've tried to provide usable defaults for all the settings in the 
> installer/uninstaller. As a general guide it should install usable 
> defaults and don't uninstall precious user data/settings.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
> P.S: Before playing with the installer, make copies of at least your 
> settings ;-)
>
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