Re: [Tracker] Merging the indexer-split branch to TRUNK

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > ok lets just have a shell script that deletes old stuff (which is not
> > > called by Makefile) and put a note in the README file on how to upgrade
> > Really, this is not necessary. It is only old binary files and old
> > application data which is causing the problem here. It isn't *user* data
> > at all. Removing this stuff when we install is perfectly fine.
>
> Let the user decide, but don't delete stuff in the system directory
> during compilation.

This doesn't happen during compilation, it happens during the install
process and the user might not know about about the choice in the first
place, all they see is it doesn't work.

This data is data we installed previously for the user. It is data we
would *uninstall* if the user ran make uninstall before they did svn up.

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Regards,
Martyn