How does cola start on Windows? about git-cola

[davvid]

The installer is created by running ./contrib/win32/run-pynsist.sh which uses pynsist against our pynsist.cfg file to generate the installer.

The launcher icons are actually generated by pynsist using the metadata in there so it might actually require changing pynsist itself to change the behavior.

In case it helps, there's a contrib/win32/pynsist-preamble.py file which gets injected into each of the pynsist-generated entry points.

We've tried to hide console windows in the past, but those were for the git commands themselves. Here's a link to that code in case it helps at all.

[orazdow]

Hm ok, it says here there's a console=false option in the cfg to run using pythonw.exe. I'm not sure when I would get around to trying to build with that option though, so feel free to close. It seems like a simple thing to try though so I may try.

[davvid]

Awesome! Thanks for pointing out console = false. I'm going to go ahead and add that to our pynsist.cfg file. There shouldn't be any downsides.

We should also upgrade the pinned dependency versions while we're in there.