On 4/8/14, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Yuzhen Fan <fanyuz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The current installation instructions [1] (last updated on 2014-03-26)
>> does
>> not differentiate the clean installation and upgrade installation for
>> Windows, thus it does not state the option to keep or delete the old
>> version for an upgrade installation.
>>
>> I propose development update the installation instructions [1] when
>> submit
>> the fix to bug 124599 [2], to provide what is expected to see with
>> details
>> as below:
>>
>> 1. Upgrade from old version to relative new version (e.g. from 3.3 to
>> 3.4.1, from 3.4.1 to 4.1.0, from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0, etc)
>> 2. Specify the different behavior/experience on all platforms (Windows,
>> Linux and Mac) - I do not see problems in the current instructions on
>> Linux
>> and Mac, but need confirmation
>>
>> That is essential, because for testers we need this as criteria for
>> testing, and for end users we need this as instructions for guiding.
>>
>
> You are right. We need to have our installations instructions accurate!
> Commmitters can directly edit this page and commit. Others can submit
> patches which we can review.  We could use help from all folks using our
> installation binaries on this.

Should this be on d...@openoffice.apache.org?

>
>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#winoverview
>> [2] Issue 124599 - Windows 4.1.0 installer does not recognize former
>> versions correctly
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Yu Zhen
>>
>
>
>
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