Metastream errors on launch when missing VC++ dependency

[samuelmaddock]

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• Metastream Version: 0.1.2
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open Metastream without Visual C++ dependencies.

Error: The specified module could not be found.

To fix this, the user needs to install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

This error should be caught on startup and a dialog should instruct the user to download this.

[samuelmaddock]

Should be fixed by 1d53c0a, I wasn't able to test though as I had issues trying to uninstall the dependencies.

I'll re-open if someone reports this again after the release of v0.1.4.

[samuelmaddock]

Oops, I forgot to update the download links on the website so people were still downloading 0.1.3 without the friendly error message. 😭

[talynone]

Bug still exists in 0.14, friend who lives in NZ running Windows 10 latest x64 had the startup error, was fixed by installing x64 C++ redistributable from Microsoft.

[samuelmaddock]

@talynone Does your friend use a language other than English on Windows? I was checking explicitly for English text previously. This will be fixed in the next update. e2afdca

[talynone]

Sorry for the delayed response, she's using English, I'm not sure if she's using a New Zealand / Australian / British variant though.

[samuelmaddock]

Closing as the Electron app will soon be deprecated by #94.