It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

[Derek Bump]

I agree.  This moving and installing of new versions is extremely annoying.  And it's not hard to impliment some preferences somewhere on the system.  What I've done is put some preferences within the registry, or sometimes it goes in a preferences file in the root folder.

But most importantly I'd love an installer that would allow the ability to remove previous versions, merge previous versions or install without touching previous versions.
 

Derek Bump
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Shafer" <revdan at danshafer.com>
To: "Revolution User List" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys


> I realize RunRev has limited resources.
> 
> I realize that there are probably higher priorities.
> 
> But, really, guys, how hard would it be to finally fix the installation 
> process so it was smooth? I am so tired of downloading a new version 
> (latest incident was the Build 2 of 2.5), then having to copy all my 
> Plug-ins and other stuff over to the new app folder (which is a pain 
> but perhaps difficult to automate). But what *really* bugs me is having 
> to re-register the product and reset my preferences every time I 
> upgrade or do a reinstall (especially since reinstalling has become a 
> multiple-times-per-week chore since I started pushing the envelope a 
> bit).
> 
> Isn't this really a matter of storing some of this information like 
> prefs and license key in a folder that doesn't get overwritten by a new 
> installation? How hard can that be?
> 
> If I required my customers to go through these kinds of hoops every 
> time I upgraded their software, they'd tar and feather me.
> 
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
> 
> :-D
> 
> 
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