osu/osu.Desktop
Bartłomiej Dach 1e3c332658
Fix broken installer
Closes https://github.com/ppy/osu/issues/26510.

Time for a rant.

Technically, this "broke" with 9e8d07d314,
but it is actually an end result of upstream behaviours that I am
failing to find a better description for than "utterly broken".

Squirrel (the installer we use) has unit tests. Which is great, power
to them. However, the method in which that testing is implemented leads
to epic levels of WTF breakage.

To determine whether Squirrel is being tested right now, it is checking
all currently loaded assemblies, and determining that if any loaded
assembly contains the magic string of "NUNIT" - among others - it must
be being tested right now:

    2442721748/src/Squirrel/SimpleSplat/PlatformModeDetector.cs (L17-L32)

If one assumes that there is no conceivable way that an NUnit assembly
*may* be loaded *without* it being a test context, this *may* seem sane.
Foreshadowing.

(Now, to avoid being hypocritical, we also do this, *but* we do this
by checking if the *entry* assembly is an NUnit:

    92db55a527/osu.Framework/Development/DebugUtils.cs (L16-L34)

which seems *much* saner, no?)

Now, why did this break with 9e8d07d314
*specifically*, you might wonder?

Well the reason is this line:

    3d3f58c252/osu.Desktop/NVAPI.cs (L183)

Yes you are reading this correctly, it's not NVAPI anything itself that
breaks this, it is *a log statement*. To be precise, what the log
statement *does* to provoke this, is calling into framework. That causes
the framework assembly to load, *which* transitively loads the
`nunit.framework` assembly.

(If you ever find yourself wanting to find out this sort of cursed
knowledge - I hope you never need to - you can run something along
the lines of

    dotnet-trace collect --providers Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime:4 -- .\osu!.exe

then open the resulting trace in PerfView, and then search the
`Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start` log for
the cursed assembly. In this case, the relevant entry said something
along the lines of

    HasStack="True"
    ThreadID="23,924"
    ProcessorNumber="0"
    ClrInstanceID="6"
    AssemblyName="nunit.framework, Version=3.13.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2638cd05610744eb"
    AssemblyPath=""
    RequestingAssembly="osu.Framework, Version=2024.113.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null"
    AssemblyLoadContext="Default"
    RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="Default"
    ActivityID="/#21032/1/26/"

Either that or just comment the log line for kicks. But the above
is *much* faster.)

Now, what *happens* if Squirrel "detects" that it is being "tested"?
Well, it will refuse to close after executing the "hooks" defined via
`SquirrelAwareApp`:

    2442721748/src/Squirrel/SquirrelAwareApp.cs (L85-L88)

and it will also refuse to create version shortcuts:

    2442721748/src/Squirrel/UpdateManager.Shortcuts.cs (L63-L65)

Sounds familiar, don't it?

There are days on which I tire of computers. Today is one of them.
2024-01-13 22:04:21 +01:00
..
LegacyIpc Repurpose Flat{File -> }WorkingBeatmap 2023-08-12 00:49:42 +02:00
Properties
Security Partial everything 2022-11-27 00:00:27 +09:00
Updater Use new initialisation structure for github sourced update manager 2023-11-09 12:26:41 +09:00
Windows Partial everything 2022-11-27 00:00:27 +09:00
DiscordRichPresence.cs Simplify UserStatus to be an enumeration type 2023-12-06 18:52:27 +01:00
lazer.ico
NVAPI.cs Make dotnet format shut up about naming 2024-01-03 10:05:11 +01:00
osu!.res
osu.Desktop.csproj Update squirrel to latest release 2023-11-07 21:28:36 +09:00
osu.nuspec Package .json files in nupkg output 2022-05-18 14:05:21 +09:00
OsuGameDesktop.cs Update inline with framework IWindow changes 2023-07-01 19:02:09 +02:00
Program.cs Fix broken installer 2024-01-13 22:04:21 +01:00