On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 23:43 -0400, Douglas Philips wrote: > On 2008 Apr 7, at 11:23 PM, Steve Borho wrote: > > All TortoiseHg binary installers are designed to be installed over the > > top of an existing install or on a clean system; this can be > > accomplished in only one reboot. > > Ok, so if I installed 0.4 RC<mumble> and then wanted to go back to > 0.3, would I uninstall 0.4 or could/should I just reinstall 0.3 over > top?
Yep, that should work just fine. > > Installing two side-by-side is not supported as the last installed > > version essentially wins; the older one is (should be) entirely > > ignored. > > Having an older install in the path before a newer install will > > lead to > > broken behavior until it's removed. > > Ok, thanks. I won't do that then. :) > > > So.. upgrading is always safe, but you should only have one version > > installed at a time. > > will the official version be able to upgrade the RC, or isn't the > versioning that sophisticated? I'm just concerned that I'll be stuck > with the official version thinking itself is already installed when > the RC is what is really installed. Hmmm, that seemed much clearer in > my head. :) No, it's nowhere near that smart. There is zero upgrade logic in the installer, it just extracts its file where you tell it to and adds some registry entries. -- Steve Borho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.borho.org/~steve/steve.asc Key fingerprint = 2D08 E7CF B624 624C DE1F E2E4 B0C2 5292 F2C6 2C8C ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
