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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi all,<BR>
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I'm very close to the 6.3.0-4 WinGRASS release; I made some changes to the installer, mainly bug fixing in the sample data download section and changes in the install procedure.<BR>
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Sample Data Download<BR>
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I updated the tarball http addresses (specially to fix <A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/189">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/189</A>) and the extracted folder names, then I added a new message box before to start the download process; it's something like that: <A HREF="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img02.png">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img02.png</A><BR>
if the user press cancel the following message appears: <A HREF="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img03.png">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img03.png</A><BR>
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Install Procedure<BR>
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There are mainly four options that we must consider:<BR>
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1. FIRST INSTALL<BR>
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the user is installing GRASS for the first time<BR>
No problems. Normal install procedure.<BR>
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2. UPGRADE INSTALL<BR>
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the user is installing GRASS over a previous installed and older version;<BR>
the following message appears: <A HREF="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img04.png">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img04.png</A><BR>
before to install the new version, we need to unistall the old one. The procedure is:<BR>
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2.1. if OK is pressed, it calls the Uninstaller<BR>
2.2. if the user quits the uninstall procedure, the whole upgrade install procedure quits<BR>
2.3. if the uninstall procedure succeded, the upgrade install procedure goes on installing GRASS in the same path of the previous installation (so without asking for the install path again)<BR>
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3. DOWNGRADE INSTALL<BR>
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the user is installing GRASS over a previous installed and newer version;<BR>
the following message appears: <A HREF="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img01.png">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img01.png</A><BR>
before to install the older version, we need to unistall the newer one. The procedure is:<BR>
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3.1. if OK is pressed, it calls the Uninstaller<BR>
3.2. if the user quits the uninstall procedure, the whole downgrade install procedure quits<BR>
3.3. if the uninstall procedure succeded, the downgrade install procedure goes on installing GRASS in the same path of the previous installation (so without asking for the install path again)<BR>
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4. REPAIR INSTALL/RE-INSTALL<BR>
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the user is installing GRASS over a previous installed and same version;<BR>
the following message appears: <A HREF="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img05.png">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/img05.png</A><BR>
the uninstall procedure is not needed here. The procedure simply calls the installer re-asking the user for the install path.<BR>
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Comments and suggestions are wellcome. Regards,<BR>
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Marco</FONT>
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