265883 - addDirectory is case-sensitive on Windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduction:
- Add

[foo]
bin\plugins\foo
bar\

to packages-win
- Put

...
winreg.setRootKey(...)
...
err = addDirectory("",
                   version,
                   "bin/Plugins",      // dir name in jar to extract
                   pluginsFolder,      // extract to dir
                   "",                 // extract to subdir
                   true);              // Force Flag
...
err = addDirectory("",
                   version,
                   "bar/",      // dir name in jar to extract
                   otherFolder,      // extract to dir
                   "",                 // extract to subdir
                   true);              // Force Flag
...

into your install script

Actual result:
1. Installer reports -229 (SCRIPT_ERROR) and aborts
2. Log says:
addDirectory() for plugins returned: -214
addDirectory() for plugins returned: -211
Line 0:   can't convert Error to string
Line 107:   winreg.setRootKey is not a function

Doc
<http://web.archive.org/web/20040212161725/devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2001/xpinstall/1.0/err.html#998941>
says:
INSTALL_NOT_STARTED  	 -211  	 A problem occurred with the parameters to
initInstall, or initInstall was not called first
DOES_NOT_EXIST  	 -214  	 The specified file cannot be deleted because it does
not exist.

Good luck figuring out what's wrong, took me over an hour.
The cause was that "bin/Plugins" doesn't find "bin\plugins\" in the zip/xpi.
Consider the spurious errors at line 0 and 107. Also note that the extended
description for errors -211 and -214 is totaly nonsense. None of the errors have
to do with initInstall or deletion, the only thing that meant anything was the
MACRO/constant name.

Expected result:
- Case insensitivity on Windows when looking for files and dirs
- No irrelevant or spurious errors
- Accurate documentation

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

MozillaAS v1.7.x is not supported anymore.

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

This is about the old install.js API which no longer exists, I think, in favor of extensions install mechanism.
Resolving WONTFIX lacking a better name.