Hi all,
Carlos: both solutions are bad!
Actual solution: does not allows to go back to the main version (2007r
something).
Your advice solution: does the things wrong because when the user stops
using any older version that needs the "trick", the (bad) "trick" is
still there.
A correct solution is to provide - as a WindowScript ? - a way to go
back and forth at will, and when you do not need to go back anymore, use
the latest version (that remove the incorrect way to use the registry).
A gold rule is to always restore the thing in the state you find it
before close (and not let it as is… like Macromind Director does long
time ago: I need 256 colors, so I set that and never restore it to
Millions - 24 bits colors -).
This is just a simple opinion.
BTW: installing 2007r4, then 2007r2 let me run 2007r2 like a charm (like
it can run). Now, I will not install a current version unless I get a
license number for it (no more try a current release).
Cheers,
Emile
PS: I think that the "registry problem correction" appears on 2k8r1.
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:42:25 +0100
From: "Carlos M" <rblists@rbtips.com>
Subject: Re: Can't go back to 2007r3 after installing 2008r4
To: "REALbasic NUG" <realbasic-nug@lists.realsoftware.com>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>
> On 29-Sep-08, at 10:04 AM, Rubber Chicken Software Co. wrote:
>> The only issue involved here is shared files.
>
> This has nothing to do with shared files
> It is the registry entries that cause the problem
> Prior versions wrote some entries to the registry but not as designed
> Newer versions have changed this to be how it had been designed
> The older versions expect those incorrect entries while the newer version
> expects the updated ones
Norman,
So, why didn't RS just stored the new (or corrected) registry keys
into a new folder starting with 2008r4 and left the "old" registry
keys in place for the previous versions? This wouldn't cause any
incompatibilities... and this is a solution that is very common to use
in Windows for these cases.
I'm really perplexed why RS didn't use such solution and preferred to
overwrite the registry keys *knowing* that this would cause
incompatibilities that wouldn't allow a previous version to run
simultaneously with 2008r4.
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