[Winpt-users] Announcement for WinPT 0.11.5

[vedaal@hush.com]

i *think* i may have found the source of the problem,

would like to ask others here to try and confirm

i installed gnupg 1.4.2 and winpt 0.11.5  on a system (win 2k 
pro)that has never had either, and everything worked perfectly well

i used the default install, 
specifying only that 
(1)gnupg be installed into c:\gnupg
(2)winpt be installed into c:\wpt

i then tried to install 0.11.5 on my workstation (same win 2k pro 
as above) that already had 1.4.2 and 0.11.x 
and winpt would not even load, but generated an error message and 
closed

the last version that worked was one of the earlier 0.11.(1 or 2, 
don't remember exactly)


the explanation turned out to be in Timo's answer:

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:55:19 -0500 Timo Schulz <twoaday at gmx.net> 
wrote:

>Something must be different compared to all my test environments 
>and compared to the other machines where it works. The problem is 
just 
>to find out what...

i suspect that the 'test environment' on Timo's system is the 
default
one  with the default home directory

winpt 0.11.5 automatically makes the gnupg home directory
c:\Documents and Settings\user]application data\gnupg

because this is the default directory that gnupg uses in the 1.4.2 
windows installer (independent of where gnupg itself is installed)

so,
on a default install, everything works perfectly,
and when clicking on the winpt icon in the tray, and then 
'preferences' and GPG,
the winpt 'GnupG Preeferences' window opens'
and displays the home directory as 
c:\Documents and Settings\user\application data\(can't see the rest 
of the line)

here is where i think the problem is:

the line is greyed out and does not allow for changing the home 
directory,
and when 0.11.5 is installed on a system where the home directory 
is, anything else, as for example, c:\gnupg
then the problem happens, and winpt will not even start

a simple way to confirm this on a test environment,
is to set a different home directory for gnupg by specifying it in  
gpg.conf,
and then try installing winpt, and confirming the problem

a possible solution, would be to have winpt prompt for the home 
directory upon installation
(it could still list the same default as now, just show the 'GnuPG 
Preferences' screen during the installation and allowing the user 
to change the home directory if necessary)

on my work systems,
i don't have access to regedit

so would like to ask for independent confirmation of the above,

Thanks,

vedaal



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