From: Dennis Decker Jensen <dennisdecker@...>
Date: 2001-03-06T06:34:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12062] SV:  Re: Windows Installer questions

Alain Hoang wrote:
> 	I guess I'm part of the crowd.  From my experience of
> working with Windows
> and upgrading software the suggestions you are putting forth sound quite
> nice to me.  I guess one of the things that's sorta nice (and brainless)
> everytime I see the Windows installer pop up is that if I have a previous
> version of software loaded that will have incompatibilities with the older
> one I'd prefer the installer be smart enough to notice this, notify the
> user that it found an older version of the s/w and that it would like to
> remove the old.  If the user selects yes it goes ahead and de-installs the
> older version then proceeds to put the brand new shiny version on the
> system then delete some necessary .dll and then cause world havoc on my PC
> :-).

I've used all of the previous installer versions and never experienced any
havoc removing old version and installing new version of Ruby. Then again
I've never needed backward compatibility :-)

I like this suggestion as well. In my experience removing the old one and
installing the new one is the only way to make windows behave nicely. Let
the user be notified and make the choice of wheither the old one are to be
removed...

> Waiting for the new install to bring World Peace :-)

I would gladly wait until version 1.7.0 for a new Windows installer.

Among the many installers I've tried in my time, Ruby Windows Installer is
among the best. Thank you! Keep up the good work!

Dennis Decker Jensen