Migrating from NSIS Unicode to QtIFW

IanTrudel commented 7 years ago

Download latest version of QtIFW: https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt-installer-framework/
Change hard-coded path in tasks.rb:make_installer, QtIFW is supposed to be in PATH but may need a reboot
Mimicking previous Shoes installer
Moving away from previous installer style for QtIFW style
Suggest to test in a virtual machine (will otherwise mess up your current Shoes installation)
QtIFW provides component style installation, which will be a great asset but it seems to be necessary to move content in some com.shoesrb.shoes/data directory (can't use msys2 or pkg anymore)

Advantages in the future:

Online installer
Optional components
Upgrades
X11 and MacOS X friendly (yes, it can create desktop icons and stuff!)
And more...

ccoupe commented 7 years ago

One question in the javascript is

if (installer.value("os") === "win")

Is that how js compares things?

IanTrudel commented 7 years ago

JavaScript === is used for strict equal where it also ensures the objects both sides are of the same type. Then == would be an abstract equal where type conversion may be applied. Excerpt from https://www.impressivewebs.com/why-use-triple-equals-javascipt/ 👍

console.log(99 == "99"); // true
console.log(0 == false); // true

console.log(99 === "99"); // false
console.log(0 === false); // false

shoes / shoes3

Migrating from NSIS Unicode to QtIFW #330