[EXT] tl2020 pretest begin (action `platform' not supported on Windows)

[Philip Taylor]

Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

> The horrors of UAC and NTFS permissions... It might have been simpler
> just to rename tlperl.

True.


> Do you _need_ an admin install?

Well, in the Windows world, when one is installing a program for all 
users, one installs it as (an) administrator, which ensures that it 
/really/ goes into C:\Program files [(x86)] and not into some hidden 
directory which pretends to be C:\Program files [(x86)] for the current 
user but which is complete invisible to all other users.  Now as far as 
I know, TeX Live does not try to insert anything into C:\Program files 
[(x86)], but the idea of installing for all users as (an) administator 
is so deeply ingrained that I did not consider for a second that I might 
install TeX Live as myself. And to be honest, I don't /want /to install 
it as myself.  I could, I suppose, create a TeX Live user, and install 
it as that, and I will do that if you recommend that I should.  But the 
TeX Live hierarchy should most certainly not be owned by me, or by any 
"real" user for that matter.

> The module concerned consists of the following files:
>
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\auto\Win32\OLE\OLE.dll
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\OLE.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\Const.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\Enum.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\Lite.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\NEWS.pod
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\NLS.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\TPJ.pod
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\TypeInfo.pm
> <root>\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE\Variant.pm
>
> Are these present?

Indeed they do, as far as I can tell.  See below :

> C:\TeX\Live\2020>dir tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\auto\Win32\OLE
>  Volume in drive C is SSD 0 (Win 7 system partition)
>  Volume Serial Number is 9A53-7E13
>
>  Directory of C:\TeX\Live\2020\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\auto\Win32\OLE
>
> 09/03/2020  20:03    <DIR>          .
> 09/03/2020  20:03    <DIR>          ..
> 08/03/2020  17:43               415 .packlist
> 08/03/2020  17:43           135,168 OLE.dll
>                2 File(s)        135,583 bytes
>                2 Dir(s)  34,494,423,040 bytes free
>
> C:\TeX\Live\2020>dir tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\OLE.pm
>  Volume in drive C is SSD 0 (Win 7 system partition)
>  Volume Serial Number is 9A53-7E13
>
>  Directory of C:\TeX\Live\2020\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib
>
> 08/03/2020  17:43             4,379 OLE.pm
>                1 File(s)          4,379 bytes
>                0 Dir(s)  34,494,377,984 bytes free
>
> C:\TeX\Live\2020>dir tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE
>  Volume in drive C is SSD 0 (Win 7 system partition)
>  Volume Serial Number is 9A53-7E13
>
>  Directory of C:\TeX\Live\2020\tlpkg\tlperl\site\lib\Win32\OLE
>
> 09/03/2020  20:03    <DIR>          .
> 09/03/2020  20:03    <DIR>          ..
> 08/03/2020  17:43             6,234 Const.pm
> 08/03/2020  17:43             2,744 Enum.pm
> 08/03/2020  17:43             6,096 Lite.pm
> 08/03/2020  17:43            12,714 NEWS.pod
> 08/03/2020  17:43            31,034 NLS.pm
> 08/03/2020  17:43            30,692 TPJ.pod
> 08/03/2020  17:43            14,758 TypeInfo.pm
> 08/03/2020  17:43            18,380 Variant.pm
>                8 File(s)        122,652 bytes
>                2 Dir(s)  34,494,386,176 bytes free
>
> C:\TeX\Live\2020>

>

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