On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 11:12 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > I'm very happy with the new stable release.Congrats to all developers. > > I do have a note on the release announcement. It starts off with a big > warning > that any previous version should be installed, particularly on Windows. > > Actually I made changes in the Windows installer (in r19528) that takes care > of this automatically. From the commit log: > > <quote> > Bug #588414 - Got "Entry Point Not Found" errors starting GnuCash?, but ran OK > The problem is caused by leftover files from a previous install. > The solution is to uninstall GnuCash? before installing a new version in such > cases. > This commit adds a compatibility test and uninstall step to the windows > installer > that will automatically uninstall the previous gnucash release if it is > considered > 'incompatible' with the one to be installed. The user will be warned of this, > so > he can decide to cancel the installation if he doesn't like the idea of > uninstalling > his working GnuCash? installation. > Currently, versions are considered 'incompatible' if their major or minor > version > components are different, so 2.3.x is incompatible with 2.2.x and will trigger > an uninstall. Likewise, a 2.4.x install is incompatible with a 2.3.x and will > trigger an uninstall. This is a nice way to remove all testing 'cruft' from > the > system once the new release comes out. > Note that in the future installing 2.3.16+ over 2.4.x will also trigger the > uninstall, which is > a good thing IMO. An older release can't know about changes made in a newer > one, > so it's safer to first uninstall the newer one to avoid leftover files. > </quote> > > So I think it would be good to improve the release announcement, particularly > on the website. Several people have been asking about this already on the > mailing list. > > I'm not really sure how though. Is this message purely there for the Windows > "Parse error" messages ? In that case it can simply be removed. But if it is > also important to remove prior GnuCash versions on OS X/Linux, then it has to > be amended. > > Anyone has some insights here ?
Geert, you're right. I remember seeing that change in the installer but missed it when creating the release announcement. I'll update the news on the website. Phil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
