[Interest] Qt Installer Framework

Kalinowski Maurice Maurice.Kalinowski at digia.com
Tue Jan 29 10:21:28 CET 2013


> 
> > Not sure how we handle that, but i guess that behavior is correct. In case of
> two different uninstall tools, both called "App", one entry will overwrite the
> other (even if version is different). Anyway, I need to lookup MSDN for the
> right behavior, in the meantime it wouldn't hurt if you could file an issue.
> Better we close it later than to forget to fix it if it's broken.
> >
> 
> Here i created an issue with possible options how to act when user wants to
> install app second time: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTIFW-
> 211 Did i miss anyting?

I remember that this has been under discussion once. One question would be how other solutions (NSIS, ...) handle this. IIRC they behave the same and simply overwrite the current setup. This is most likely based on the assumption that a user knows what is installed on his/her machine.

BR,
Maurice



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