It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

[Dan Shafer]

What are you doing, Andre? Going for THREE apps in one day?

:-D

Dan

On Sep 7, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

>
> Dan,
>
> in the meantime, would it be hard for us to create a "migrator" stack 
> that would pick license.rev, the plugins and other important stuff and 
> merge with other Rev folder? I think we could do this, then if we 
> reinstall rev, press a button on the migrator stack, puf, cloned 
> instalation... :D
>
> Andre
>
>
>
> On Sep 7, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> 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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