Asrail said on 12.02.2005 18:36:
Peter Reaper, 12/2/2005 11:23:
Every new version or snapshot of OOo creates a brand new profile. Why? I have to redo all my settings and preferences every time.
I realize the snapshots are for testing, but still... :-(
Also, why does every version or snapshot of OOo create a separate installation directory (\OpenOffice.org 1.9.77\)?
At this stage (near 2.0), it seems OOo should be able to *update* the installation and profile data.
It shouldn't, as I said. It updates from one version to another, like from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4, but 1.9.74 and 1.9.77 are intended to be *the same* version.
These are developer builds. If you don't like the way it's you can keep using the stable builds, like 1.1.4.
No. It isn't beta yet. This "update" won't exist in a real instalation, i.e., the purpose is to verify if it creates a new profile without any kind of problem.
So at almost 2.0 OOo still isn't confident it can create a new profile reliably? Mozilla has been doing this since *way+ before even 1.0. This just confirms my impression that OOo has still not leaned the lessons mozilla has been demonstrating to the open source community, namely usability and simplicity for the *user*.
Update is a thing diferent, so may occur some bugs just because of it. Also it still chaanging a lot of things.
The installation folder should contain no settings files, so a simple deletion of all files in \OOo\ just before installation should suffice.
As far as the profile is concerned, there should be relatively few changes at this stage, and when they do occur, the programmer should be required to include a migration module. I have never even heard of this being a problem in 3+ years of mozilla development. :-\
Don't joke guy. When installing development versions of Mozilla they say to you uninstall the older version and delete the profile. One of the first smoke testes of Mozilla is *"to create a new profile"*. Also Mozilla, since the begin, changed more than once the way the profiles are created. They also changed the profiles folder. Mozilla says that you have to create new profiles when installing a major version, because may there to be incompatibilities. This happened with me while playing with firefox some time ago. After all, some plugins for firefox and mozilla don't work with your profile if it is so old.
..."mozilla development"... How many nightly builds of Mozilla have you used in your life? Check my headers, look at the "User agent" info, do you see I am using a nightly build of Thunderbird? (look at the data of release and look for the data of the last oficial release of TB).
Some of the nightly builds of TB I used were impratical to use because they hadn't a complete UI (when they changed it, it last something around a week)!
Do you use the 'development versions' of Mozilla and never noticed anything strange? Or do you wanna compare a development version with stable ones (like Mozilla 1.7.4 to 1.7.5)?
Try a mozilla nightly build of, lets say, today. I hope it doesn't crash either require a larger amount of memory either you got any troubles with javascript either...
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