It is a basic requirement for an installer to be able to cleanly upgrade
or uninstall the package.

On Thursday 26 January 2006 20:01, Anthony Kozar wrote:

> There have been over 400 downloads of RC2 alone.  Assuming the installers do
> nothing to remove old plugin libraries, every person who installed RC2 or
> RC1 who now installs the final release will have the old utility plugins
> sitting in their opcode directory.  Do we really want to deal with dozens of
> complaints about error messages saying that the plugins fail to load because
> they are duplicates?  That kind of response is not what I would call a
> "smooth launch" for the much anticipated Csound 5 :)
> 
> *IF* we do move forward with the final release this way, the installers
> really should remove the old utility plugins.  But that was the whole point
> of the release candidates -- to work out the kinks in the installers!


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