Re: Re: Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General
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- Subject: [mg97314] Re: [mg97233] Re: [mg97205] Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:38:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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But does it SAY that somewhere on the page where one downloads an installer, or on a printed piece of paper if one receives physical installation media, or in a readme file that accompanies the installer, or, ... ? Does it even say that when you run the installer? (After I uninstalled 7.0.0 and ran the installer for 7.0.1, I received no such notice even though I still had 5.2 and 6.0.3 installed.) Why the secrecy? Is one supposed to intuit the answer? Hence my complaint -- and it's a complaint, as I said, much more generally applicable than about Mathematica. DrMajorBob wrote: > I believe, with Mathematica, the procedure is to simply install the new > update. If you choose to give it the same name as the old (simply > Mathematica, for instance), it overwrites the old. If not, you now have > (at least) two versions. File associations should go to the new version, > but if they don't, just change them. > > I used to keep old versions, but I no longer do that. > > Bobby > > On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:02:14 -0500, Murray Eisenberg > <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote: > >> Is there some installation instructions I missed that tell you the 7.0.1 >> installer will uninstall 7.0.0? If so, where? >> >> I didn't see such, so I did the same thing I always do when such a minor >> update arrives: first uninstall the old version and then install the new >> version. (With a major version change, of course, I leave the old >> version installed until I can migrate everything affected.) >> >> One of my biggest complaints about software in general is how seldom >> there is up-front information on how to handle an update/upgrade: you >> must uninstall the old version first; you may uninstall the old version >> first; you should NOT uninstall the old version first; the installer >> will automatically uninstall the old version first; the installer will >> not uninstall the old version first; the installer will give you the >> option of uninstalling the old version first. >> >> Considering how often many software products come out with updates, new >> releases, upgrades, etc., and how much effort is often devoted to >> pushing and selling such new versions, it remains amazing to me at how >> inattentive so many software publishers are at dealing with this >> so-obvious matter. >> >> >> Helen Read wrote: >> > >> > ... And the 7.0.1 installation is pretty easy if you already have >> > 7.0.0 installed. If you accept all the default options, it goes ahead >> > and uninstalls 7.0.0, sucks up your mathpass and init.m files, and >> > installs 7.0.1. >> > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments
- From: Helen Read <hpr@together.net>
- Re: Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments