Minor suggestion
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KE5FX
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Minor suggestion
Having your installer nuke everything in the target directory, including files the user placed there, is somewhat nonstandard in the Windows world, just FYI.
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KE5FX
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Re: Minor suggestion
In this particular case, one or two .bat files that I wrote to use as shortcuts for bladerf-cli.exe went away. They had filenames like t.bat.jynik wrote:Thanks for the heads up!
Could you elaborate on which files of yours where removed and where they resided, just so that we can consider than when looking at the uninstall logic? I know that usually some MATLAB-generated files from the install will get left behind -- I'm wondering if trying to clean those up is what is overzealous...
The usual practice for Windows installers is to remove nothing except the files that they put there. There are exceptions here and there but they're tough to justify, IMHO.
BTW, should I have a bladerf_winflasher.exe anywhere? The Wiki mentions it at https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/wiki/U ... F-firmware but I don't see it anywhere in the current Windows distro.
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KE5FX
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Re: Minor suggestion
In this case I'd installed it to c:\dev\bladerf and put my batch files in the x64 subdirectory, alongside the various executables.jynik wrote:Do you recall which directory the shortcuts were in? That might help track down the overzealous uninstall target...
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KE5FX
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Re: Minor suggestion
Thanks! It's an amusing collection of hacks, all right.jynik wrote:Thanks -- will add that to the TODO list for furture revs.
By the way -- fantastic work on the GPIB toolkit! (Thought that callsign looked familiar...)
I've had this board since your original Kickstarter campaign, but have only just now started to play with it. Complaints about MIA batch files notwithstanding, I've really been impressed at how accessible and readable/modifiable your code and HDL is. bladerf-cli is great in particular -- it's rare to see SDR projects based on simple platform-independent console apps instead of layers of weird scripts and "innovative" GUIs with homebrew flow graphs or whatever. It's almost like an honorary GPIB Toolkit component.
I also have a couple of other questions, will start another thread for them.
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KE5FX
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Re: Minor suggestion
Any thoughts on this? I may have asked in the wrong section.