Re: When updating Euphoria
- Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Apr 14, 2007
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don cole wrote: > > DB James wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have delayed posting this out of some embarrassment. The many times I > > have > > installed new versions of Eu, I have dragged many different folders from the > > old to the new version folders. Finally the corroded nickel dropped and I > > took the time to move all this stuff, including win32 includes folder and a > > folder where I keep all non-official includes, to one single folder. I > > changed the EUINC system variable to reflect this. Now let the new Eu > > versions come as fast as they like -- I just drag that one folder to nestle > > among the new version folders. > > > > Probably most everyone else has figured this out a long time ago, but in > > case > > someone may benefit from my experience, I hereby admit it took me a while... > > > > --Quark > > Hello Quake, > > The way I do it, > > 1.)Change the old euphoria folder (with include files) to Fuphoria. > > 2.)Install the new Euphoria. > > 3.)Copy new Euphoria folder into the fuphoria folder. When asked "a copy of > this file already exits" overwrite, ignore or cancel? Select overwrite all. > You should now have fuphoria with include folder with all the new updates and > the any new files you added since your first installation. > > 4.)Rename the fuphoria folder back to Euphoria. > > > Don Cole Don, Sounds good, except don't you mean "copy the *contents* of the new Euphoria folder...", rather than "Copy new Euphoria folder into the fuphoria folder."? If you *drag* copy new Euphoria folder into Fuphoria folder, you get a folder of new Euphoria *inside* Fuphoria, so EUINC won't find the *new* includes, etc, after last rename of Fuphoria back to Euphoria, right? Dan