If you play Eve Online, read this, NOW!

[chedabob]

Originally Posted by neowolf

It's a really simple mistake. One small typo and boom. What they REALLY need to do is look into their testing process as that's one hell of a bug to miss.

It shows bad coding that relies too heavily on direct file links.

It should:

1) Get the Program Files directory via Windows API
2) Append "\Eve Online" or whatever to it
3) Install files to that directory

[neowolf]

Originally Posted by chedabob

It shows bad coding that relies too heavily on direct file links.

It should:

1) Get the Program Files directory via Windows API
2) Append "\Eve Online" or whatever to it
3) Install files to that directory

That sort of bug can occur even with direct file links. More than likely it's an inappropriate space before a '\'. (Though making sure the directory call is absolute as and one directory would've prevented this as well. This really is a fairly common type of horrific mistake.)

[Dax]

Originally Posted by X51

It'll be fixed.

No, I thought they were gonna leave it like this.

Originally Posted by man on the moon

whats the game bout any way?

Awesome.

[NapalmRiot]

This is too bad.

[Fyrus]

Man, that's a blow.

[E6600]

Originally Posted by chedabob

It shows bad coding that relies too heavily on direct file links.

It should:

1) Get the Program Files directory via Windows API
2) Append "\Eve Online" or whatever to it
3) Install files to that directory

how would this blow your PC?

[chedabob]

Originally Posted by E6600

how would this blow your PC?

That's what it should be doing instead of having a big long list of "C:\program files\eve online\blah.zip;C:\program files\eve online\bleg.zip".

[E6600]

Originally Posted by chedabob

That's what it should be doing instead of having a big long list of "C:\program files\eve online\blah.zip;C:\program files\eve online\bleg.zip".

so it does that for every file
still I don't see how that can kill your OS
could it possibly mess up the file table and thus make the disk useless without a chkdsk or a format
btw chkdsk on Windows never works, usually causes more problems, ignoring chkdsk actually works better

[chedabob]

Originally Posted by E6600

so it does that for every file
still I don't see how that can kill your OS
could it possibly mess up the file table and thus make the disk useless without a chkdsk or a format
btw chkdsk on Windows never works, usually causes more problems, ignoring chkdsk actually works better

By the looks of it, the installer runs in the application directory, and they meant to put ".\boot.ini" so it copied to the install directory, but instead they forgot the . and it installed to the root of the drive.

I would never ever rely upon . or .. to choose a directory, because it leaves far too much room for error.

[E6600]

Originally Posted by chedabob

By the looks of it, the installer runs in the application directory, and they meant to put ".\boot.ini" so it copied to the install directory, but instead they forgot the . and it installed to the root of the drive.

I would never ever rely upon . or .. to choose a directory, because it leaves far too much room for error.

I see, so it is a . vs .. issue, you could easily mess up with that
now I understand