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Bug 11525 - Upgrade Wizard must cooperate with Installer
Summary: Upgrade Wizard must cooperate with Installer
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Vitezslav Stejskal
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Reported: 2001-04-18 16:06 UTC by Adam Sotona
Modified: 2008-12-22 17:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Adam Sotona 2001-04-18 16:06:01 UTC 
Installer (when upgrading) creates backup of previous installation folder and 
Upgrade Wizard should check this folder and use it for import.

Cooperation is realy important.
Comment 1 Martin Balin 2001-04-18 16:14:32 UTC 
Desired behavior should be following:
Installer creates a backup of user settings and then does not move them into
real location used by IDE. This means that installer will skip one current step.
IDE when started detects this backup directory and offers to user to import from
this dir.
Comment 2 Jan Zajicek 2001-04-19 10:39:24 UTC 
Hmm. I think that current sitiation is this:
Upgrade installer installs new version over the old one together with keeping
the previous setings (Am I right Jiri?). So it does nearly the same as import
wizard.

When we skip the upgrade phase in the installer and then try to import from
backuped previous version it should not work because there is not backuped the
core.jar file, which is critical for import settings wizard to determine the
previous version of IDE (am I right Jiri and Vita?).

So the solution is that the upgrade installer should skip the upgrade phase and
backup the core.jar too, so user can perform import using import wizard and all
problems will be solved.

Opinions?
Comment 3 Vitezslav Stejskal 2001-04-19 12:48:17 UTC 
Installer and Upgrade Wizard will cooperate on upgrade.properties file, which 
will be created by installer in the root of upgraded IDE. UW will read it and 
proceed import of settings from backup copy of system directory from previous 
version (created by installer). Me and Jirka will settle on the structure of 
upgrade.properties file.
Comment 4 Vitezslav Stejskal 2001-04-21 22:22:33 UTC 
Cooperation was implemented, Wizard imports settings from backup copy of the 
previous version made by Installer. Location of that copy as well as the 
version of previous IDE is stored in upgrade.properties file. Wizard looks for 
this file and procceds import automatically in silent mode (no GUI displayed) in 
case the file exists. Last Wizard's panel is displayed with additional info in 
case of errors.

Fixed in dev, 3.2
Comment 5 Jan Zajicek 2001-04-30 13:56:43 UTC 
verified, when user decides in the upgrade wizard to upgrade, settings are
imported silently in the background and no interaction from the user is needed
Comment 6 Jan Chalupa 2001-05-05 20:54:48 UTC 
Target milestone 3.2
Comment 7 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 16:42:26 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.