Subj : chksetup.js output
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Apr 26 2026 09:51 pm

  Re: chksetup.js output
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Sun Apr 26 2026 10:46 pm

 >   Re: chksetup.js output
 >   By: Digital Man to MRO on Sun Apr 26 2026 01:05 pm
 >
 >  > environment variable would have been set already as well. The fact
 >  > that the prerequisite MSVC libraries weren't already installed (as
 >  > demonstrated in the video) is another good clue that Synchronet
 >  > wasn't previously installed on that system.
 >
 > well it's not a clue. i said that. i told you i was updating it in a vm.

"updating in a vm" is not the same as "upgrading a non-installed Synchronet".

 > the sysop runs his bbs on shitty windows 8 so i made a vm to update it to
 > make sure things would run for him.

Maybe actually install it first, next time.

 >  >  > after i set the environments and ran it again it worked correctly.
 >
 >  > I don't see anything to change from my perspective.
 >
 > if you run the update, and  you type in the path in the update program the
 > updater script wont use that path and expects sbbs/.  it should atleast nag
 > the person to set the environment variable.  and i thought we didn't have to
 > do that manually anymore?

You don't have to, *if* you're using the default install location ("c:\sbbs") - 
if you're using a custom/non-standard install location, then yes, you need to. 
And the installer does it for you - when you use it.

 > it would be ideal if the update script actually used the path it asks the
 > user to provide. https://i.imgur.com/NX3gcEd.png

It will in the next release. But it also would've worked just fine had you just 
installed sbbs before upgrading it.

 > in the install i typed in the correct path to the synchronet install, and
 > the update script still expects sbbs

It defaulted to \sbbs\ctrl because the SBBSCTRL environment variable wasn't 
set.

 > And why are you still using the windows registry when you have all these ini
 > files?

Because that's how Windows tracks what applications are installed and where 
they're installed. You can't do that with .ini files.
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