On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 12:48:37 UTC, Grander wrote:
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 12:40:27 UTC, rjframe wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:14:16 +0000, FoxyBrown wrote:
You can make any claim you want like: "The end user should
install in to a clean dir so that DMD doesn't get confused
and load a module that doesn't actually have any
implementation" but that's just your opinion.
I have never seen extracting into the directory as a supported
upgrade path for anything except the simplest of applications
and a few PHP projects that supply a migration script.
Well, any other installer would have done the required cleanup
in such a case.
The D installer completely uninstalls the previous installation.
Anyone who chooses to instead manually extract the zip file
should manually delete the previous installation to avoid
potential problems. As Jonathan said earlier, overwriting works
most of the time, but whenever anything is removed, issues like
this can crop up.
