Re: [Tracker] Merging the indexer-split branch to TRUNK

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:40 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > ok lets just have a shell script that deletes old stuff (which is not
> > called by Makefile) and put a note in the README file on how to upgrade
>
> Really, this is not necessary. It is only old binary files and old
> application data which is causing the problem here. It isn't *user* data
> at all. Removing this stuff when we install is perfectly fine.
>
> It is just as likely the user won't read the README and won't find the
> script and we will still have to explain it to them on the mailing list.

well im open to advice on the best way forward

if adjusting the makefile will cause problems for non-root installation
or affect windows then shoulld we not do something else?

Im not sure what other projects do here

jamie