Re: [q-lang-users] Release 7.1 Installation Failure

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Larry Gregg wrote:
> This turned out to be more of a chore than I expected.   Apparently, I 
> tried to delete RC3 manually, before installing V7.1.  This left the 
> Registry with a lot of entries pointing to missing files, etc.  I had to 
> use a Registry fixer to get rid of the missing links.  I had no idea 
> that Q modified the reqistry, and with so many items!

The interpreter and all the other command line programs included will 
never use the registry. Never. The QPad editor/mini IDE does, just like 
about any other Windows application, but it keeps all its entries 
(mostly option settings of the application) under a single parent key 
and it should never be necessary to manually remove those, Qpad will 
update them as needed.

But I guess that MSI also updates the registry, so that it knows where 
to find stuff that it needs to remove when upgrading a package to a 
newer version. Or maybe it's just the way that "Advanced Installer" does 
things. If anyone can recommend another freeware MSI builder which just 
works, and makes it reasonably easy to just create a simple package with 
a few files and some menu and desktop links, I'll be happy to give that 
a try.

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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