[Bug 724090] New: Windows x86_64 SDK Installer: Path Bug forces install to %ProgramFiles(x86)%

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724090
  GStreamer | don't know | unspecified

           Summary: Windows x86_64 SDK Installer: Path Bug forces install
                    to %ProgramFiles(x86)%
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: Normal
         Component: don't know
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: gnomebugzilla at sheltoncomputers.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


When using the GStreamer SDK 2013.6 (Congo) for Windows 64 bits (Runtime) MSI
installer and selecting "C:\Program Files\Gstreamer" as the install Directory,
it forces itself into "C:\Program Files (x86\Gstreamer". 

As a work-around, to get it into the appropriate directory for 64-bit
applications, you have to manually move the "Gstreamer" folder to "C:\Program
Files" and then export the relevant parts of the Windows Registry. This is so
you can, next, "Find and Replace" all instances of "Program Files
(x86)\\Gstreamer" with "Program Files\\Gstramer" (two \\ necessary for escaping
the slash [\], part of syntax for a registry import [.reg file]) and then
reimport the registry. 

Also, while you are fixing this bug where the installer chooses the directory
against your will, you could also make the DEFAULT be "C:\Program Files". For
even better compatibility, to find "Program Files" no matter what drive Windows
is installed on, the variable that windows uses is "%ProgramFiles%", whitout
quotes, and the 32-bit variable is "%ProgramFiles(x86)%", again without quotes.

A Windows installation using default settings transforms "%ProgramFiles%" into
"C:\Program Files". When using Linux-native apps compiled for windows, like
Gstreamer, this would really help avoid bugs with path variables since Linux
does not like a SPACE ( ) in any path; the Linux-native application would be
using %ProgramFiles% (no spaces) and windows would automatically be
transforming it into a space. Please start referencing paths using
windows-native variables where applicable as follows:
%ProgramFiles% = C:\Program Files
%ProgramFiles(x86)% = C:\Program Files (x86)\
%UserProfile% = C:\users\(username)\

Summing it all up, I changed all instances in the registry to
"%ProgramFiles%\Gstreamer\....". 

I'm sure you devs know all of this, except for the bug above; I'm just pointing
it out of how it would help compatibility between an OS that uses spaces in
paths and the others that don't, just like Linux will allow a dot (.) in its
path where windows will not. I know you know that any environmental variable
can be referenced by putting its name between %% signs, as I did with the three
native-to-windows variables above.

Ty for all and keep up the great work!

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the QA contact for the bug.
You are the assignee for the bug.