Re: [Exist-development] 2.0RC2 installation failed on OS X 10.8

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Wolfgang,

>> - although when I see warnings like, "Are you sure you want to install
>> in /Applications/eXist-db? It will overwrite the data in that
>> directory!" I assumed the installer would first wipe that directory,
>> no?
>
> It does not wipe the directory but just overwrites files. We recommend to never install over a previous installation. I'll see if we can change the warning message to be more clear about this.

I just tried the new installer (2.0 rev 18248) and got the "The
directory already exists! Are you sure you want to install there and
possibly overwrite existing files?" warning.  Is it really okay to
overwrite files?  Shouldn't this read, "This directory already exists.
 We do not recommend installing over a previous version of eXist-db.
Are you sure you want to continue installing in this directory?"

Joe