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Re: Installing beta (1.7) version parallel to current one


2009/5/4 Dave Korn:
> ?Yeh. ?Given the problem in making the data structures restartable, I think
> out best bet in the short term might be to a) give people an explicit choice
> of upgrade or parallel (default to upgrade) at an earlier screen, and
> subsequently gray-out the back button. ?We could perhaps attach a label next
> to it explaining that you have to restart setup altogether, or add a little
> "Restart from scratch" button that actually kills and respawns setup maybe.
>
> ?I'm looking at gcc and console stuff right now, then I'll come back to this.
> ?In the meantime, I would love to hear everyone else's ideas for ways to deal
> with this glitch, I'll code up whatever we decide would work best.

While you're looking at that code, any chance you could limit the
warning against installing in the root directory to the initial
install? It's pointless and rather annoying to have it pop up on every
single update.

Andy


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