[ANN] TortoiseHg-0.3

[Steve Borho]

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 21:53 -0500, Kevin Greiner wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 6:22 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
>         
>         
>         I forgot to mention that you cannot simply upgrade an existing
>         TortoiseHg installation.  The registered shell extensions
>         cause the OS
>         to lock a number of files and will not allow them to be
>         overwritten.
>         You must uninstall the old TortoiseHg, reboot, then install
>         the new
>         package.
>         
>         If anyone knows how to make InnoSetup perform this operation
>         more
>         efficiently, please let me know.
> 
> Upgrading TortoiseSVN, which is also a shell extension, often requires
> a reboot after the install but not the uninstall-reboot-install dance.
> Have you examined their setup script or asked Steve King? He seems
> pretty willing to share his knowledge.

Thanks for the feedback.  I believe this problem has now been solved.
I'll know for sure after a bit of testing.

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