408309 - seamonkey installer doesn't warn user when no vc++ runtime is found on the target machine

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[demo1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.590; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121319 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

the installer doesn't install vc++ runtime and doesn't warn the user
it won't run without them : this happens when seamonkey is linked
against vc++ dynamic runtimes (vc++ 2005 or 2008)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run setup on a bare xp machine or nt 2003 with no vc++ runtime installed
2. launch seamonkey
3.
Actual Results:  
won't launch

Expected Results:  
launch

the vc ++ runtime need to be installed oin the target machine

Comment 1

[demo1]

I was mentored to achieve the build and installation
checks by Pierre RF Barthe and used the gimpvs
concept where the installation ws used
to check the difference beteween gimpvs installation
and seamonkey one:
http://gimp-vs.sf.net

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> the vc ++ runtime need to be installed oin the target machine

Moving to build config, though I believe this may be invalid.

SeaMonkey is shipped with the appropriate dlls to allow it to run (they will be the version equivalent to what the tinderboxes build). We purposely don't install the vc++ runtime as that may require elevated privileges that the user doesn't have access to.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Did you try with an official nightly installer from ftp.mozilla.org or just with a self-built one? It's entirely possible that the official ones actually do install the runtime.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

The SeaMonkey Win32 tinderbox does redistribute the CRT DLLs in the side-by-side configuration:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/tinderbox-configs/seamonkey/win32/tinder-config.pl#13
As such, resolving INVALID.