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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in


From: Philip Nienhuis
Subject: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu
Date: 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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