[ANN] TortoiseHg-0.3

Kevin Greiner greinerk at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 20:53:18 CST 2008


On Feb 2, 2008 6:22 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:

>
> I forgot to mention that you cannot simply upgrade an existing
> TortoiseHg installation.  The registered shell extensions cause the OS
> to lock a number of files and will not allow them to be overwritten.
> You must uninstall the old TortoiseHg, reboot, then install the new
> package.
>
> If anyone knows how to make InnoSetup perform this operation more
> efficiently, please let me know.
>

Upgrading TortoiseSVN, which is also a shell extension, often requires a
reboot after the install but not the uninstall-reboot-install dance. Have
you examined their setup script or asked Steve King? He seems pretty willing
to share his knowledge.

-Kevin
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