As a Developer I need to fix most critical issues on Windows platform

[pathumego]

Lets use this to track windows related issues.

• [ ] Windows 7 font installation issue #50
• [ ] Uninstalling fonts #48
• [ ] Updating fonts

See https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack-windows-installer

[heimdallrj]

@sacsand

• Update windows install/uninstall logic as the same pattern as darwin and linux.
• Use sudo-prompt or other alternative to handle access rights.
• @thinkholic will provide a solution for windows cache issue
• Let's remove batch files in src/etc
• Complete update logic once installing and uninstalling fixed.

[heimdallrj]

I'm putting possible solutions here as separate comments.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/a/24714441/2311000 This is a c# solution which we can replicate to nodejs. (with admin rights)
   • Copy font files
   • Update registry

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1037453/programatically-installing-font-in-windows

[heimdallrj]

2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/21992546/2311000

We can also replicate this. We can bundle our app with FontReg.exe and use that. This is just an idea, I'm note sure will it work or not. But possible.

http://code.kliu.org/misc/fontreg/

See the readme.txt

If you...

...run FontReg.exe without any command-line switches:

  * FontReg will remove any stale font registrations in the registry.
  * FontReg will repair any missing font registrations for fonts located in
    the C:\Windows\Fonts directory (this step will be skipped for .fon fonts if
    FontReg cannot determine which fonts should have "hidden" registrations).

...run FontReg.exe with the /copy or /move switch:

  * FontReg will install all files with a .fon, .ttf, .ttc, or .otf file
    extension located in the CURRENT DIRECTORY (which might not necessarily be
    the directory in which FontReg is located).  Installation will entail
    copying/moving the files to C:\Windows\Fonts and then registering the fonts.
  * FontReg will remove any stale font registrations in the registry.
  * FontReg will repair any missing font registrations for fonts located in
    the C:\Windows\Fonts directory (this step will be skipped for .fon fonts if
    FontReg cannot determine which fonts should have "hidden" registrations).

FontReg.exe is intended as a replacement for Microsoft's outdated fontinst.exe,
and like fontinst.exe, FontReg.exe is fully silent--it will not print messages,
pop up dialogs, etc.; the process exit code will be 0 if there was no error.

[heimdallrj]

3. https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/303867/Installing-Font-programmatically-using-Csharp-with

[heimdallrj]

@sacsand I think we should go with (2). What do you think?

[sacsand]

yes it is a good option... lets try it