On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:50:02PM +0100, :murb: [maarten brouwers] wrote: > Hi Christian, > >So making it too prominent can backfire... > >OTOH, the devel-versions install into a seperate dir, so that allows to > >have it alongside your stable version, but currently it is not > >easy/obvious how to install a rc along your stable version, the default > >is to replace the stable one. (and that led to lengthy discussions on > >the german mailing lists already) > > > Just being curious, what was the general opinion in this discussion,
That it should be possible to install any version next to an existing one. Currently, you have to know the setup.exe /a switch on windows, and on linux, you need to know how to only unpack the rpms/use an additional rpm-database/need to know how to use the --prefix switch to install into another directory. The current behaviour (that an RC replaces a stable version) was expected by those who know about OOo's QA-Process/how the setup works, but unexpected by more "unexperienced" users. (Unexperienced in installing lots of different versions of OOo, not necessarily unexperienced when it comes to dealing with the computer) Quite a bunch of those users were using OOo 1.x and remembered that they always had a choice whether the installation should update the old one or install into a new dir. And since OOo 2.0 installed into a seperate dir, it was more or less the same for them. Being able to choose a different installation folder in the Custom-setup on linux, enforced them in their thought that they can do a parallel-installation. When they find out, that the new version was indeed installed into the requested location, but their old version was removed, they get angry/think this is a bug. > and > 2nd, is anyone trying to change this? I think so, yes, there is the new javainstaller module that as far as I understand it, will ease the installation of rpms to a users's directory for the end-user (on linux and solaris). For windows, there is the mentioned /a switch, and issue 52695 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52695 (I doubt anybody is currently working on it, but at least the /a method was added to the setup-guide already) > We should always warn users before downloading a RC ... I will keep it > in mind when I make a button for it. Thanks. ciao Christian -- NP: Blind Guardian - And The Story Ends --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
