http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5505
--- Comment #2 from Derik Barseghian <[email protected]> 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). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kepler-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-dev
