From 2b7e18dec5ccb51270df7c8bd554ffdf2e28e603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Tobias=20Nie=C3=9Fen?= Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:37:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] win,msi: highlight installation of 3rd-party tools MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Currently, the installation wizard more or less silently installs third-party software (Boxstarter + Chocolatey). This adds some text to the MSI installation dialog and to the Boxstarter installation script. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23003 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22645 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22988 Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann Reviewed-By: João Reis --- tools/msvs/install_tools/install_tools.bat | 4 ++-- tools/msvs/msi/i18n/en-us.wxl | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/msvs/install_tools/install_tools.bat b/tools/msvs/install_tools/install_tools.bat index 6bef8ca5b64258..1cb3c9300d59f6 100644 --- a/tools/msvs/install_tools/install_tools.bat +++ b/tools/msvs/install_tools/install_tools.bat @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ echo Tools for Node.js Native Modules Installation Script echo ==================================================== echo. echo This Boxstarter script will install Python and the Visual Studio Build Tools, -echo necessary to compile Node.js native modules. All necessary Windows updates -echo will also be installed. +echo necessary to compile Node.js native modules. Note that Boxstarter, +echo Chocolatey and required Windows updates will also be installed. echo. echo This will require about 3 Gb of free disk space, plus any space necessary to echo install Windows updates. diff --git a/tools/msvs/msi/i18n/en-us.wxl b/tools/msvs/msi/i18n/en-us.wxl index 71c17014911033..9b948156a5481d 100644 --- a/tools/msvs/msi/i18n/en-us.wxl +++ b/tools/msvs/msi/i18n/en-us.wxl @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Optionally install the tools necessary to compile native modules. WixUI_Bmp_Banner Some npm modules need to be compiled from C/C++ when installing. If you want to be able to install such modules, some tools (Python 2 and Visual Studio Build Tools) need to be installed. - Automatically install the necessary tools. The script will pop-up in a new window after the installation completes. + Automatically install the necessary tools. Note that this will also install Boxstarter and Chocolatey. The script will pop-up in a new window after the installation completes. Alternatively, follow the instructions at https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows]]> to install the dependencies yourself.