| I realised the problems with the installer, so
I spent half my afternoon sorting this (and other things)
out.
The installer for the final release will replace the old
libraries
perfectly, so no conflict will happen there. So the final
release
can be installed on top of RC1 or RC2.
But please don't do any more code reorganisations, as I
will not have time to prepare another release package
before Feb 1.
Victor
>
> Istvan Varga wrote on 1/26/06 5:00 AM:
>
> > Now you have one target, which should be simpler.
>
> I like the separation from a conceptual standpoint. But
> having fewer targets to maintain manually _is_ easier from
> a practical standpoint.
>
> > No, unless an installer is very poorly written. But the
> > installers I am aware of just copy all dynamic libraries
> > , with the exception of a few specific ones like
> > CsoundLib, the language interfaces, etc. as plugins. The
> list of plugin libraries does change with releases, so
> > hardcoding it into an installer would not be a good
> idea.
>
> OK, but even if the installers were written so as to
> anticipate this sort of change, there is another rather
> serious user issue that this merge creates.
>
> 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!
>
> Sorry, but given the timing, this just seems like a bad
> idea to me ...
>
> Anthony Kozar
> anthonykozar AT sbcglobal DOT net
>
>
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