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Re: Installing new versions of vim doesn't uninstall old versions


On 11/11/2010 1:45 PM, Renà Berber wrote:
On 11/11/2010 12:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

On 11/11/2010 1:07 PM, Harrington, John wrote:
I recently had a problem with vim that was the result of my unwittingly
having two previous versions of vim in my /usr/bin.  Is it normal for the
cygwin installer not to delete or clobber the previous versions?  I'm not
sure what I did wrong, if anything, in updating my cygwin installation.

Probably just a local glitch. We haven't seen other reports of this, though that could just mean that no one else has noticed.

Actually there are many reports, its not just vim, similar reports have been made about ssh, and checking for un-installed updates showed other cases.

setup.exe just leaves<you-name-it>.exe.new (or .dll.new) and the change
never happens.

It may have been one of the old versions of setup, I don't know, some
upgrades do happen correctly when an old one is still there, and left there.

Yeah, maybe that explains this one too. If John was using 'vim.exe' when he did an update, then this could be the result. But there is no vim-specific issue here.

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