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Article #905Re: [ANN] CodeWarrior v 8.3 update for Macintosh
From: David Rehring
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:09
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:09
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In article <mwron-E16816.21491514112002@enews.newsguy.com>, MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote: > In article <drehring-D2562E.14422414112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net>, > David Rehring <drehring@shaw.ca> wrote: > > >Well, from doing a fresh install, it seems that the CodeWarrior updaters > >don't work properly if you rename the IDE. > > No they worked properly if you rename the IDE, that was the problem. > What you considered correctly and what the designers considered > correctly are two different things :) I can't believe you are saying that it's proper and acceptable for an updater to fail to update one of the most important files in your product and still report success. > > So, I've been using the 8.0 > >IDE all along, with the various other components being updated properly. > > > >This is extremely lame for the installer to succeed, yet not actually > >perform the update correctly. > > I wish if there was a component that didn't install it would say > installation failure and pop up the installer log and save you having to > read through it. I did read through the 8.3 installer log. There no mention of a file not found or an update problem. And it's impossible for me as an end-user to know if a 'line' is missing from the log. Later, -- David Rehring Psychos do not explode when light hits VP of Research and Development them, no matter how crazy they are... Atimi Software, Inc. www.atimi.com And totally insane guy!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bcce,816428046910b67f X-Google-Attributes: gid10bcce,public X-Google-Thread: f635e,816428046910b67f X-Google-Attributes: gidf635e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-14 20:09:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!news1.calgary.shaw.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.79.92.5 From: David Rehring <drehring@shaw.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,codewarrior.mac Subject: Re: [ANN] CodeWarrior v 8.3 update for Macintosh References: <mwron-960ED4.12541614112002@enews.newsguy.com> <drehring-EB3B5F.13160214112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net> <3DD418E0.4080408@interacivityunlimted.com> <drehring-5335DC.13564114112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net> <drehring-D2562E.14422414112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net> <mwron-E16816.21491514112002@enews.newsguy.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.2 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: <drehring-791695.20103514112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net> Lines: 37 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:09:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.69.255.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: news1.calgary.shaw.ca 1037333396 24.69.255.232 (Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:09:56 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:09:56 MST Organization: Shaw Residential Internet