Topic: SF Package manager bug - crashes!

Hi Jeff,
I went to use the SFPackage manager and found that it immediately crashed with barely a flicker on the screen. I tried to run spfm from the command line and got a fortran error message as follows;
C:\Program Files (x86)\SF Package Manager>sfpm info
SF Package Manager - Fortran Command Line Client 2.2
Copyright 2021, 2022, 2023 Approximatrix, LLC

At line 223 of file .\config.F90
Fortran runtime error: Substring out of bounds: lower bound (0) of 'str' is less than one
Error termination.
I just changed machines and thought that maybe that had somehow caused the problem so i did an uninstall/reinstall but no change. Any help would be appreciated as I use it fairly extensively.
Regards,
Pete

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Re: SF Package manager bug - crashes!

Pete,

Thank you for the report.  It looks like the configuration for the package manager is retrieved from the Windows registry, but some fields are incorrect or incomplete.  I'm not sure how that happens.  It leads to a string length calculation that returns zero. 

I'll try to get a fix out today.

Jeff Armstrong
Approximatrix, LLC

Re: SF Package manager bug - crashes!

Thanks Jeff!
Let me know when you've found the time to fix it.
Regards,
Pete