Meeting_2012-12-06

What is needed for a new release:

• a working installer
• working plx conversion

Variablar for installeraren:

• Variablar relevante for om ting funkar i det heile:
  • Office-versjon: 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013
  • Windows-versjon: XP, Vista, W7, W8
  • språkkode: ISO (se-NO) vs LCID (1083)
  • bit-versjon for Windows: 32b vs 64b
• variablar uavhengig av grunnleggjande funksjonalitet:
  • Office-utgåve: home/student vs pro/full
  • installeringsmodus: admin/rot/nett vs lokal brukar vs terminalserver

Verkty for debugging:

• dependencywalker

Børre has installed different proofing tools recording registry settings before and after. Has installed:

• Divvun 1.1 (PL - exe by InstallShield)
• Divvun 2.2 (PL - exe by NSIS)
• Greenlandic 2 (Lingsoft - exe by InstallShield)
• Greenlandic 3 (Tino - MSI by WiX)
• Bokmål installer from the Office 2010 Pro, English, with a Norwegian language pack (MS - MSI)

All working installer (all except KAL 3) contained the same type of registry entries.

For Office 2007, on 32-bit Windows 7. All tools except Greenlandic 3 worked for all users, not only the installing user.

On Office 2010, same Windows 7, the bokmål installer used the same registry entries as Divvun 2.2.

Bokmål registry entries:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\F612C02F7F111D94CA585B60E5FDBD13]
"00004109F10041400000000000F01FEC"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE14\\PROOF\\MSSP7NB.DLL
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\130DBDD4A0A1AB542B8DD901C7E78177]
"00004109F10041400000000000F01FEC"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE14\\PROOF\\MSSP7NB.LEX"

Divvun 2.2 registry entries:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\55EF2BF3CD33B874CBC22EAD2AA7CC00]
"57CB6F3B98FBBB64A855473F371F97EB"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\\\Proof\\mssp3samiNorthern-NO.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\5CF385611BB33A64DB4A6A6517AF63C2]
"57CB6F3B98FBBB64A855473F371F97EB"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\\\Proof\\mssp3samiNorthern.lex"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\2DF27058FFEB22F48BA0D98DA860714D]
"57CB6F3B98FBBB64A855473F371F97EB"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\\\Proof\\mssp3samiLule.lex"

The Greenlandic 3 xml installer script, on the other hand, follows a different pattern:

<RegistryKey Id='KalSpellRegGlobal10' Root='HKLM'
Key='SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\User Settings\Mso_CoreReg\Create\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\kl-GL' Action='createAndRemoveOnUninstall'>
<RegistryValue Type='string' Name='DLL' Value='[INSTALLDIR]kalspell.dll' />

The bokmål installer registry diff contains also diffs like the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Components\1CF85317B34E1D111AF7000A9CA05BF0]
+"1044.x86"=hex(7):78,00,62,00,27,00,42,00,56,00,5a,00,70,00,4a,00,42,00,24,00,\
+  21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,21,00,4d,00,4b,00,4b,00,53,00,6b,00,4f,00,75,00,74,\
+  00,6c,00,6f,00,6f,00,6b,00,53,00,65,00,61,00,72,00,63,00,68,00,53,00,68,00,\
+  65,00,6c,00,6c,00,52,00,65,00,67,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,6c,00,5f,00,31,00,30,\
+  00,34,00,34,00,3c,00,00,00,00,00

The hex-encoded character list (of big-endian UTF-16 characters) is actually the string:

xb'BVZpJB$!!!!!MKKSkOutlookSearchShellRegIntl_1044<

But similar entries are created by our NSIS installer.

Working scenarios for Divvun 2.2:

• Office 2007, 32 bit Windows 7, all users
• no report of problems with older Windows versions -> we assume that all installation scenarios are ok (but should be tested at least briefly to be sure)

Next scenarios to test with all installers:

1. Office 2007, 64 bit Windows 7
2. Office 2010, 32 bit Windows 7
3. Office 2010, 64 bit Windows 7

Get registry entry diffs, check whether the installed tools work for all users, not only the installing user.

DONE:

• Børre har installert og diffa mykje, sjå over

TODO:

• look at further combinations of Windows and Office (Børre)
  • working on it
• get a proper MS certificate, to remove the warning users get when installing (Børre)

POSTPONED:

• find an outsourcing option (Børre, Sjur)
• next week: try updating NSIS ourselves (Børre, Sjur)
  • using Tino's documentation & old docu's from PLX
• send a request to an NSIS developer e-mail list (Sjur)
• try to find an NSIS script for building MSI packages (Børre)
• add Windows 8 support to our installer (if possible)

Remaining PLX bugs:

First PRI

Words are accepted and suggested in their compounding-form

REGRESSION - DOESN'T RECOGNIZE SOME ACRO/PROP+NOUN, seems random

Second Last PRI

Section for Tags-not-working

as as+N+ACR+Sg+Acc as as+N+ACR+Sg+Gen as as+N+ACR+Sg+Nom

Bugs below this line can be left out of the next release if we are short on time.

SUGGESTIONS

Compounds

ain is an adverb:

ain
ain	ain+Adv

and should not be allowed to compound.

Last PRI

REGRESSION

DONE:

• Tomi has solved even more PLX bugs

TODO:

• investigate the inconsistent PLX conversion bug, cf guollibusse ( Tomi)
• solve the remaining PLX bugs one by one (Tomi)

• December 1:
  • PLX bugs solved
  • Alpha installer (MSI package built using WIX)
• December 10: Beta release
• December 20: Divvun 3 release