[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

--- Comment #2 from Derik Barseghian <barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2011-10-06 12:35:50 PDT ---
Whoops, didn't notice a mid-air collision when posting my comment last night:

I made this change intentionally at r28648:
By default, no longer install into versioned directories, install in the same
place each time, overwriting as necessary: /Applications/Kepler/ and C:\Program
Files\Kepler

The windows installer prompts you to overwrite an existing Kepler dir if it
exists. On Mac, the OS prompts you to overwrite an old copy of the app if it
exists.

While some applications install into dirs with version or year numbers (eg
Office) in the name, a lot of others install in the same place every time, I
believe with the idea being that most users want 1 copy of an application, the
latest one. Advanced users can modify the dir name to maintain different
copies.

A benefit of not keeping the version number in the name is that with this
release forward it helps avoid failure to start kepler due to missing modules,
see http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5458#c6 for background. 

A downside of this current state: possible wasted bandwidth. E.g. let's say you
download a kepler 2.4 installer in the future, and overwrite your 2.3 install.
If you try to open a 2.3 kar in strict mode (not that many people should want
to do this), you will have to download 2.3 (the 2.3 modules will go into your
KeplerData\kepler.modules dir).

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