69349 - control panel add/remove name should be DIFFERENT for milestones and nightlies

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

control panel add/remove name should be DIFFERENT for milestones and nightlies

I have mozilla installed twice: once under \Mozilla Milestone and once under
\Mozilla Nightlies

This way i can always use the latest nightlies, but if something goes wrong, i
can go back to the latest milestone.

The problem is that both are listed only ONCE in the control panel under
add/remove programs as "Mozilla (0.8)", so i cannot decide to uninstall a
specific one - i don't even know which one would be uninstalled, if the need
ever arose.

I suggest to create and entry for each type:

1. Mozilla Milestone (0.8)

2. Mozilla Nightly Build (20010218)

Of course, if installing a new nightly every day (to the same directory), the
installer should remove/replace the entry for the nightly install.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

This should really be fixed before mozilla milestone 0.9.2 comes out!

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 84691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Peter Lairo]

Adding ksosez to CC, because he was on other (dupe) bug.

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

ssu has been working for the mail team for the past several months, and has only
been working on install stuff when dragged back for "emergencies" (as defined by
his management).

There are two approaches we could take here: In the short term if the installer
were updated at the beginning of each milestone period to have the version
"0.9.2+" the way the user agent does then milestone builds would be different
from nightlies. This would be something fairly easy to do right now by just
about anyone with the following drawbacks:
 - another time we'd have to touch the installer each milestone
 - wouldn't help distinguish two nightly builds, just milestone vs nightly

A longer term solution--which will have to wait for someone with cycles to work
on--is to bring up some dialog in the installer saying "We've found the
following installations, which do you wish to uninstall?"

Probably wouldn't be too hard, you'd just have to enumerate through well-known
registry locations for the list and create a windows dialog. But it's not a high
priority with the pdt since it doesn't help Netscape customers (who in effect
only get milestones), so helpwanted. I'm sorry, I know this sucks, but look at
our buglists.

Comment 6

[Peter Lairo]

I think your fist solution (milestones vs nightlies) is more than sufficient,
since most people will only be testing one nighlty at a time (usually the newest
one). It option 1 is easy to implement, I would be thrilled if it were done.

Comment 7

[Sean Su]

Attachment: patch #1 to make each milestone build unique.

Comment 8

[Peter Lairo]

If you're going to make each milestone entry unique, then you must have the
milestone installer automatically uninstall and remove the control panel entry
for previous milestones, *if* the user installs a milestone to the same
subdirectory as the previous one.

Dito for nightlies :)

Comment 9

[Sean Su]

There's no need to have it uninstall the previous version if installing the new 
version _ontop_ of the old one.  The installer already takes care of removing 
previous version entries in the control panel's add/remove mechanism.  If it 
doesn't, then it's a regression.

Comment 10

[Sean Su]

Forgot to mention another tidbit.  When installing ontop of an old/previous 
version, and mozilla then does not "work properly", it could be a bug in the 
installer's ability to "upgrade".

Comment 11

[Sean Su]

over to Curt.

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Seamonkey and Firefox are using a new NSIS based installer. resolving this old bug, please reopen if you still get this with the new installer