[kepler-dev] [Bug 5505] Kepler-2.3 installer should create directory named "Kepler-2.3", not "Kepler"

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5505

Derik Barseghian <barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #6 from Derik Barseghian <barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2011-11-08 18:38:56 PST ---
I didn't see a quick solution using IzPack, and since time is short, I've
reverted to including the version number in the folder name at r28909-12. Maybe
we can revisit this in the future. Closing.

(In reply to comment #5)
> rc1 created a versioned dir name, rc2 doesn't. Based on this and bug#5506 I
> think you're using rc1 and not rc2 -- I just relaunched the windows installer
> and it says Sep 30, 2011, and doesn't have the 2.0 text.
> 
> Re: frankenstein scenario, this isn't an issue for the mac, the old dir is
> first wiped.
> 
> On windows it currently is (I was under the mistaken idea it wasn't). IzPack
> says it will "possibly overwrite" existing files. I've just run an experiment:
> renamed my Kepler-2.2 to Kepler, and then installed 2.3. This leaves the 2.2
> modules in place in the Kepler app dir. This is good on the one hand, wrt not
> having to download these modules again. However it's bad in others, it makes
> the windows and mac install behavior even more different, and when I launch
> kepler after installing 2.3, 2.2 comes up -- there must be another MM bug here.
> 
> A few possibilities come to mind:
> I can revert to including the version number in the name. We then lose the
> benefit of getting rid of the MM GUI having to come up when starting old app
> versions due to missing module errors.
> 
> I can look into having IzPack delete the app dir before installing. I'm not
> clear on if this is supported. I see a request for it in 2005, but in a quick
> look at the izpack issue tracker haven't found info on it.
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.izpack.cvs/515

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