Re: Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments
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- Subject: [mg97233] Re: [mg97205] Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:02:14 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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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: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments