[Maf] Win95/98/ME Volunteer

[Allister Beharry]

Hi all,
Sorry for the delay with the this... somehow the people at the office
here have convinced themselves that 6 developers in 1 month can deliver
a 6 man-month project, and they've got this gung-ho, 10-person meetings
every day, action going on. I'm holed up at home until the smoke clears
and they learn the hard way. Isn't _The Mythical Man-Month_ required
reading for project management types anymore? 

Anyway, the patch has is showing some unstable behaviour - it works
sometimes... It's not the batch file, which does what it's supposed to
when run interactively.  When I do a "Save as MAF" in Firefox 1.0.1, 4/5
times I get an open DOS command prompt window. Closing the window
results in the "Archive operation complete dialog", but nothing happens.
One one try though the batch file ran as expected, and it produced the
Maf file. But in about 10 trys, it's only worked twice.

invis.vbs doesn't seem to work either. At first blush it seems the way
MAF is invoking Windows commands doesn't have the desired effect on
95/98. Under certain conditions, it's causing a command interpreter to
start, but it doesn't do anything.

The other thing I noticed is that it both times it worked, I chose to
"Save as MAF Archive", as opposed to "Save as MAF Zip archive" Opening
MAF archives didn't work at all, and one time I got the hung progress
bar bug.

I'll looked at the 0.5 CVS source later on today, to see how Windows
commands are being invoked.

Allister.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: maf-bounces at mozdev.org [mailto:maf-bounces at mozdev.org] 
> On Behalf Of Christopher Ottley
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:55 AM
> To: maf at mozdev.org
> Subject: Re: [Maf] Win95/98/ME Volunteer
> 
> Allister Beharry wrote:
> 
> >I have Windows 98 S.E on a VM here at work, so I can test it out.
> >
> Cool. I'll send you the XPI. Thanks.
> 
> >One solution to 7913 is to just grab the root drive user's 
> profile when
> >creating the .bat,  so your mafzip.bat would look like this if the
> >user's mozilla profile is on D
> >...
> >D:
> >CD \Documents and Settings\...<mozilla profile>\zip
> >  
> >
> Yep. That's the approach I took. I added two new processable profile 
> variables and it should work, but I always like to test these things.
> 
> >Why in the 21st century we still have to deal with drive letters on
> >Windows is beyond me :).
> >  
> >
> Why in the 21st century we still have to deal with Windows at all is 
> beyond me. ;).
> 
> Regards,
> Christopher.
> 
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