Clojurians Log v2

https://github.com/cark/Clojure-CLI-Windows-Installer

Please test, comment

downloaded the exe from the release, started it up and i see an hourglass. there is some indication of a dialog not responding. will terminate and try again.

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hum did you accept the windows user access control ?

sometimes it remains in the background

didn't even see that -- but unblocking via properties is yielding saner behavior

i'm afraid i don't quite understand the problem

how was it blocked ?

and what properties?

from windows explorer

the default on this machine for downloaded things appears to be to "mark" things blocked

ohhh ok

i didn't know that even was a thing !

lol

from windows powershell, i can see output for clj -h

but not from powershell core

hum

try [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PSModulePath")

from cmd.exe it works

pardon me as i do this slowly as this is via a vm 🙂

i'm very glad that you test it at all =)

actually, it's via rdp 🙂

wew

there is a bug in ClojureTools (the powershell stuff made by cognitect and which i use there)

if you start powershell, it will first look at the path instead of inside powershell for the clj and clojrue commands

this is what i saw: C:\Users\user\Documents\PowerShell\Modules;C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules;c:\program files\powershell\6\Modules;C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules

ok the install was not successfull

ah, why does it work for windows powershell, i wonder? old things remaining?

the program shoudl at least be in c:\program files\clojure

yes, something prevented the powershell install scripts to run, that's very fiddly

i see a c:\program files\clojure here with some files and such

should i try running the installer again?

i don't think this would change anything, but you may try =)

ha ha ha

the installer runs powershell scripts, to do this it has to first edit the registry for the users that disallow it, that's 2 points of failure

though i tested it with maximum security here

what version of windows are you running ?

windows 10 pro

same as mine

for completeness, here's the output of power shell core:

Invoke-Clojure : The term 'Invoke-Clojure' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-Clojure -h
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Invoke-Clojure:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

ah so your clj command is from the unofficial tool

it is? i thought i uninstalled it -- i'll check

for reference this is 1903 of windows 10

check your path environment variable to find it

or where.exe clj

how do you run two powershells on the same machine ?

that's another point of failure

where clj yields no output

i have the default windows powershell and powershell core

ok so you have it installed in windows powershell and not on powershell core

the output of [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PSModulePath") was on which one ?

that was for powershell core

ah, i had your wrapper installed too -- got rid of that just now

may i ask that you try the same command on regular powershell ?

ofc, just a sec

[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PSModulePath")

windows power shell

C:\Users\user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Program Files (x86)\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules;C:\Program Files\Clojure\Modules

powershell core

C:\Users\user\Documents\PowerShell\Modules;C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules;c:\program files\powershell\6\Modules;C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules

aha ! there it is !

so the install succeeded on regular powershell

and now the final test, try running clojure or clj from a regular cmd prompt

ah, that worked -- but will try it again for fun

yes, worked again

ok so it works indeed, just not on powershell core, I must admit i have no clue at all about that beast =)

i presume you meant via cmd.exe

yes

i guess they're not using the same registry entries etc

i don't know what will happen ofc, but my sense is that ms wants to move to powershell core

they even advertise it when you start windows powershell 🙂

i'm not sure, that's a step in the unix world, but they do not provide the same security guaranties with powershell core

hum not on my machine, but my version is nowhere close to the latest

ah, btw, it's been a really long time since i've used inno setup, but was it possible to show the details of installation during the installation (like a text windows that can have its content copied)?

i think my windows powershell is 5.2.1

nope that's nullsoft install that allows that i think

ah, ok

i don't remember nsis being particularly easy to think in 🙂

5.1 here

yes that language is like a strange breed of forth

your installer page mentioned one other choice i hadn't heard of

Wix is both feet in microsoft land

with all the craziness that goes along with it

ah, i see

their help page is describing properties like this : this will give you access to feature 51 or 54

!!

i guess i can do some research at: https://alternativeto.net/software/nsis/

I think it's the more versatile one

but you have to do more work for the same result

if you're real bent on obtaining a log file from this install,i think there is a /log option you can start it with

i don't personally have difficulty with inno setup as a former user, but i can imagine other folks not being too keen

ah, thanks for the tip on the log option

you mean because of the license ?

the lack of source, i was thinking

true enough

the hard part about doing this installer was more the dance with powershell security, it wouldn't be that hard to change to nullsoft

ah, it's good to hear you seem to have gotten the hard part working 🙂

not that hard though =)

the idea is to maybe dump it on cognitect so i want it to be easy to maintain, they already have quite a burden to bear with clojure

my mistake, apparently inno setup source is available: http://jrsoftware.org/isdl.php#cvsgit

https://github.com/jrsoftware/issrc

oh so they're open source but not free software, though free as in beer