[ros-dev] Re: [ros-cvs] CVS Update: reactos

[Richard Campbell]

Eric, this is incorrect.  They should not contain environment variables, 
Royce and i have investigated this on IRC.  And regardless, this doesn't 
work as intended anyways, write a test app for yourself and see.  This 
is confirmed to break compatibility with the 2 apps i tested it with 
(blizzard's installers.)

Eric Kohl wrote:

>"Richard Campbell" <eek2121 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Without this change an installer i'm working on getting to doesn't seem
>>to properly read these values.  (Thanks to this bug and another related
>>to %USERPROFILE% and %ALLUSERPROFILE% not properly getting replaced
>>when the profile is created).  After this fix and a fix for the other
>>bug, the installer now loads.
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>These values _must_ be of the REG_EXPAND_SZ type because they contain
>environment variables (%USERPROFILE% and %ALLUSERPROFILE%).
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>Regards,
>Eric
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