Installer steals file associations with no warning

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Issue by matejsp
Sunday Jan 31, 2016 at 10:39 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#12180

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Yesterday I installed the latest version (1.6) and it messed up extensions all over my Windows 7 64bit machine. The original issue was closed as "fixed" #6073.

And it changed extension for my Java, C#, Python, config, properties and I don't even know what else. I use Notepad++ to edit all those files and was about to give Brackets a go for web design.

I would propose this program to other frontend developers but they would be pissed of because of this issue too. Can we get portable version? Can't trust your installer. Uninstalling for now.

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Comment by le717
Monday Feb 01, 2016 at 17:10 GMT

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First off, the original issue was never fixed. It was all filed on the backlog and closed until it could be fixed. The code for a portable build was put up at adobe/brackets-shell#333 but never merged.

Second, as I have said in the issue you linked, I'm for removing some of unrelated-to-Web extensions, and I'll be submitting a PR to do just that.

Third, the installer is written with WiX. If you know how to develop with it, yo can always submit a PR to make the extension registrations where you can choose which you want (think like the VLC installer).

Edit: See adobe/brackets#6073 (comment)