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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in
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Philip Nienhuis |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu |
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Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:08:42 -0400 (EDT) |
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Follow-up Comment #6, bug #51878 (project octave):
Maybe Windows users are no "normal users"? (just kidding)
Mike does have a valid point in that the shortcuts (on the desktop and in the
start menu) had better be called "GNU Octave".
Whether or not version numbers should be appended is IMO entirely a matter of
(1) taste, but as the OP indicated (2) a very practical issue.
An appended version number isn't quite in the way, is it.
mxe-octave installers create a shortcut for octave-cli.exe and one for
octave-gui.exe, so pertinent suffixes seem quite appropriate.
I wouldn't be so quick to assume most Windows users have only one version
installed. ("Why bother to uninstall if you can just install a new version
next to it?") And the proficiency of many Windows users is usually hard to
underestimate.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, Markus Mützel, 2017/08/28
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, Philip Nienhuis, 2017/08/28
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, John Donoghue, 2017/08/28
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, John Donoghue, 2017/08/28
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, Mike Miller, 2017/08/28
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, John Donoghue, 2017/08/28
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu,
Philip Nienhuis <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, John Donoghue, 2017/08/29
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, Rik, 2017/08/29
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, Rik, 2017/08/31
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu, Rik, 2017/08/31