Item815: Using the windows-installer ( strawberry ) you cant later install any plugin through /bin/configure

This happens when you install any, no specific, plugin under windows through bin/configure . It does not change if you use Foswiki or TWIki namepsace plugins. Plugins work installing them the *.zip way

No data could be read from file at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\tools\extender.pl line 600
 at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/bin/configure line 91
   main::__ANON__('No data could be read from file at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswi...') called at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/Carp.pm line 46
   Carp::carp('No data could be read from file') called at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/Archive/Tar.pm line 1422
   Archive::Tar::_error('Archive::Tar=HASH(0x1dda604)', 'No data could be read from file') called at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/Archive/Tar.pm line 123
   Archive::Tar::new('Archive::Tar', 'C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/FormPlugin.tgz', 'z') called at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\tools\extender.pl line 600
   Foswiki::Extender::untar('C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/FormPlugin.tgz') called at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\tools\extender.pl line 543
   Foswiki::Extender::unpackArchive('C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/FormPlugin.tgz') called at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\tools\extender.pl line 888
   Foswiki::Extender::_install('ARRAY(0x1d954ac)', 'FormPlugin') called at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\tools\extender.pl line 1048
   Foswiki::Extender::install('MANIFEST', 'data/System/FormPlugin.txt,0644,Documentation\x{a}data/Sandbox/Fo...', 'DEPENDENCIES', '') called at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\FormPlugin_installer line 141
   require C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswiki\FormPlugin_installer called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 158
   eval {...} called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 156
   Foswiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND::ui('Foswiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND=HASH(0xccd69c)') called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/bin/configure line 561
   Foswiki::_actionInstallExtension() called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/bin/configure line 454
 at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 356
   CGI::Carp::realdie('No data could be read from file at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswi...') called at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 437
   CGI::Carp::die('No data could be read from file at C:\Programme\Foswiki\Foswi...') called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 160
   eval {...} called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 156
   Foswiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND::ui('Foswiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND=HASH(0xccd69c)') called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/bin/configure line 561
   Foswiki::_actionInstallExtension() called at C:/Programme/Foswiki/Foswiki/bin/configure line 454

This may be specific to the windows installer environment? I've installed Foswiki 1.0.0 on Windows XP Home manually. Apache, ActiveState perl and have had no problems with installation of plugins using bin/configure. Also removed ActiveState and installed Strawberry perl, Installing from bin/configure worked fine with this setup as well. Tested FamilyTreePlugin, DirectedGraphPlugin, TinyMCEPlugin.

Only issue I've found - Strawberry perl crashes when installer follows dependencies. Windows detects crash in perl on dependency download. But downloading dependency individually works fine.

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looks like Archive::Tar isn't that robust when called the way it is in Extend.pl - I've just found a possible fix (its a shame that Archive::Zip has a taint error on windows

place new extender.pl file into your foswiki/tools dir (c:\Program Files\Foswiki\Foswiki\tools by default)

uploaded installer 1.0.0-2 that fixes this issue and others.

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Jan 2009

unintentionally rolled back a fix made for Item860 - reverting that.

and yes, this is a fix for 1.0.1 that would show up without the use of the installer.

Sven