* Embed the app icon in the updater executable on Mac and
use it as the application's icon.
* Transform the application from a background to a foreground app when the
Mac dialog is shown, so that the dock icon is shown.
* Forcibly give focus to the updater application so that the progress window
gains focus when it is shown.
There is a remaining glitch with the application where the icon briefly transforms
back from the app icon to the terminal icon as the application shuts
down. This presumably happens because the custom icon set on the NSApplication
is reset before the dock icon disappears.
Mendeley Desktop is currently built for Mac OS 10.5 and newer,
so the updater needs to work on the same platforms.
With this change, it will not be possible to build the updater
on Mac OS 10.7 directly.
The utimensat/futimens system calls were introduced in relatively recent Linux
kernels and are not available on Mac. Use utimes/futimes instead - since
microsecond precision is fine for our needs.
* Move class to get the app data directory to a new StandardDirs class.
* Setup an auto-release pool at the start/end of main() to catch objects
allocated outside of the updater dialog.
This is necessary so that Launch Services in OS X picks up changes
to the Info.plist file describing various aspects of the application.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600098 for an example
of the kind of issue that failure to do this can lead to.
gtk_window_set_default_size() has no effect when the dialog
is marked as non-resizable with gtk_window_set_resizable(),
so the minimum size is instead achieved by setting a minimum width
on the progress bar.
* Centralize the error message text shown to the user in the event of a problem
installing the update in AppInfo::updateErrorMessage() and add a section
suggesting that the user should download a new copy from mendeley.com
The generated file_list.xml needs to specify the path
of the main binary and the name of the updater binary
to download. Change the format of the JSON config file to
allow these paths to be specified there.
* Update create-packages.rb to add the <is-main-binary> attribute
to the appropriate entry in file_list.xml
* Modify the sample config file
* Improve documentation in create-packages.rb
Build the GTK dialog as a separate shared library which
is embedded into the main updater binary.
At runtime the updater extracts the shared library and attempts to load it.
If this succeeds, the GTK UI is used, otherwise the updater will fall
back to something else - currently a silent install.
The current update dialogs do not support retry/cancel - if a file
cannot be installed the update will just fail with an error and
any partial install will be reverted.
The ability to prompt the user to Retry/Cancel file writes during installation is less
necessary now that we can move files that are in use. Without retry/cancel support
the update installation will just be canceled if it fails.
Following the change to FileOps::removeFile() to support 'removal'
of files that are in use in Windows, the cleanup of the updater's
temporary directory can be performed from the non-elevated updater
setup process once the main install process has returned.
This removes the --mode cleanup run mode in the updater.
Robert Knight
Robert Knight
Robert Knight