[Libosinfo] [v3 2/3] Adapt windows-unattend.xml for Windows 8

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 13:00:37 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Christophe Fergeau
> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:59:59PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> >>
> >> So that we can reuse the script template for Windows 8.
> >
> > Are you 100% sure all these changes are needed? The changelog doesn't
> > give any details about why these changes are there, and reading
> > http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/ff715827.aspx I get the
> > impression that win7/win8 support very similar scripts.
> 
> Yes, I indeed first tried the win7 script as is and that failed. I
> slowly changed things one by one (looking at hints from random
> websites) and after these changes, win8 express installation worked.
> 
> This patch was written and sent here more than a month ago and now I
> don't really remember justification for each change (assuming that I
> knew it even then). I'll have another look and see if i can put
> something but 'making win8 express installation work without breaking
> it for win7' is already a good enough argument to me.

If the changes made for Win8 still work fine with Win7 then it is
definitely preferable to simplify the conditionals.

Daniel
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