RE: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-08 Thread MisterX
lution > Subject: Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys > > > Kevin > > That is indeed awesome news. Should have known you guys would be ahead > of me on this. > > Way to go. > > Dan > > On Sep 8, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Kevin Miller

Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Shafer
Kevin That is indeed awesome news. Should have known you guys would be ahead of me on this. Way to go. Dan On Sep 8, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: On 8/9/04 1:15 am, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I realize RunRev has limited resources. I realize that there are probably high

Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-08 Thread Kevin Miller
On 8/9/04 1:15 am, "Dan Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize RunRev has limited resources. > > I realize that there are probably higher priorities. > > But, really, guys, how hard would it be to finally fix the installation > process so it was smooth? I am so tired of downloading a new

Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: in the meantime, would it be hard for us to create a "migrator" stack that would pick license.rev, the plugins and other important stuff and merge with other Rev folder? I think we could do this, then if we reinstall rev, press a button on the migrator stack, puf, cloned ins

Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-07 Thread Derek Bump
I agree. This moving and installing of new versions is extremely annoying. And it's not hard to impliment some preferences somewhere on the system. What I've done is put some preferences within the registry, or sometimes it goes in a preferences file in the root folder. But most importantly

Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Shafer
What are you doing, Andre? Going for THREE apps in one day? :-D Dan On Sep 7, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Dan, in the meantime, would it be hard for us to create a "migrator" stack that would pick license.rev, the plugins and other important stuff and merge with other Rev folder? I thin

Re: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-07 Thread Andre Garzia
Dan, in the meantime, would it be hard for us to create a "migrator" stack that would pick license.rev, the plugins and other important stuff and merge with other Rev folder? I think we could do this, then if we reinstall rev, press a button on the migrator stack, puf, cloned instalation... :D

RE: It's Time to Fix This Installation Stuff, Guys

2004-09-07 Thread Arthur Urban
> Isn't this really a matter of storing some of this information like > prefs and license key in a folder that doesn't get > overwritten by a new > installation? How hard can that be? > > If I required my customers to go through these kinds of hoops every > time I upgraded their software, they