Installer flows

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/27/14, 4:52 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>One thing that did strike me this morning is undoing all this.  This will
>happen if the install fails or the user uninstalls.   This is a damned if
>you do damned if you don't case:  if the install fails the user might want
>to get back their V2 config, but if the install is removed you want to
>leave
>V3 config in place.  My conclusion is that we should not do any undo of
>the
>renames, once we have gone 2->3 that sticks.  If someone wants to go back
>they still have all the configuration and they can do that by hand.  We
>may
>want to add another screen for the 2-3 Case "do you want to", but I
>suspect
>that we'd be better an upgrade.txt output saying what has been done.

I think that's fine. I'd be much more concerned about the case where the
installer borks, which we know happens on some systems, but as long as
nothing's deleted it's not fatal. Plus which the rule of thumb for all
upgrades is back up first.

>I'm going to move my attention now to the mechanics of the upgrade - which
>mostly means the ant file. I already have a class in place to allow the
>edit
>of idp.properties while retaining comments.

Did Java actually handle that?

-- Scott