Re: setup.exe selects old versions for required packages

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Robert Collins wrote:


> Yes, but we took the one-step at a time approach. Please note that a
> version requirement will NOT solve the vim/gettext confusion. That
> confusion was caused because setup doesn't check for file conflicts, and
> in not checking for them, cannot take appropriate action (in this case,
> upgrading the old package first, which would fix the conflict and
> prevent the .dll getting inappropriately deleted).


Maybe I am having a thinko, but I don't remember any file conflict in 
the gettext package.  ncurses(old)-->ncurses(new)+libncurses* had an 
"inappropriate .dll deletion" problem if you don't do things in the 
right order -- but I don't remember anything like that with gettext.

Help?

--Chuck



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