87599 - installer produces unnessesary ren8dot3.ini file and reg.db entry

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

The installer produces a ren8dot3.ini and a reg.db entry which are not 
nessesary, because the files already has the correct names.

The mozilla installer produces a entry at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
ren8dot3 = C:\Program Files\Mozilla.org\Mozilla\ren8dot3.exe C:\DOCUME~1
\HEGE\LOCALS~1\TEMP\ren8dot3.ini

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

that entry is not unncessary.  it is required to fix truncated filenames caused
by some windows systems.  As for reg.db, I do not know who/what creates it.

Comment 2

[Grace Bush]

verified

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

what I just meant was. On win2k the filenames are already correct, so there's no
need to rename them. Isn't it possible to only make the ren8dot3.ini file is the
files really needs to be renamed. Like on specifik windows machines?
on win2k the ren8dot3.ini file is unnessesary

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This should get taken care of when the "post install replace not implemented on
Win9x" fiasco is resolved. At that point we need to remember to remove the
ren8dot3 cruft from the install and build scripts.

Comment 5

[Syd Logan]

Resetting milestone, only nsbeta1+ bugs can have a milestone on them, these are
niminated, but not yet plussed.

Comment 6

[Syd Logan]

plussing, mozilla 1.0

Comment 7

[Syd Logan]

over to dprice after adt triage. 

Comment 8

[dprice (gone)]

fixed with 115883

Comment 9

[Henrik Gemal]

sure seems like it

Comment 10

[Grace Bush]

branch 6/7