nimbosa/meld-installer

Installer should prompt to exit running instances

Opened this issue · 4 comments

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run Meld
2. Run installer to upgrade Meld

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Installer should prompt to exit running Meld instance before attempting update.


Original issue reported on code.google.com by keeganw...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2013 at 7:52

I might add something fancier later, but for the moment I just included an 
uninstaller welcome page that includes an admonition to exit running instances 
without actually checking if there are any running instances.

Original comment by keeganw...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2013 at 3:54

Original comment by keeganw...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2013 at 3:07

  • Added labels: Milestone-1.6.1.3, Milestone-1.7.5.1

Original comment by keeganw...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2013 at 4:49

  • Added labels: Component-Installer
I think to do this right and to be compatible with all versions of Windows, I'd 
have to use a Win32 mutex: 
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Check_whether_your_application_is_running

Original comment by keeganw...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2013 at 10:03

  • Removed labels: Milestone-1.6.1.3, Milestone-1.7.5.1