Re: [Rpcemu] Upgrading from 0.8.9 to 0.8.10

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:07:23PM +0000, Tony Moore wrote:
> On 16 May 2013, george greenfield <george.greenfield@tiscali.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > In message <20130516134814.GA2038@spod.org>
> > Peter Howkins <rpcemu.howkins@marutan.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 06:39:24PM +0100, george greenfield wrote:
>
> > > > I've downloaded the 0.8.10 zip file and was wondering, is it
> > > > feasible simply to copy across the new RPCEmu-Interpreter and
> > > > RPCEmu-Recompiler into my existing 0.8.9 RPCEmu folder (which
> > > > contains an 1GB HD4 drive as well as Hostfs, 4.02 Roms and all the
> > > > usual files), or is it necessary (or desirable) to create a
> > > > brand-new 0.8.10 folder?
> > >
> > > You should create a new folder, because it's not just the two
> > > executables that can change.
> >
> > As I've just discovered :-o
> > Allegro-4.4.2.mt is implicated also.
>
> With due respect to Peter, as far as I can see, the 089 and 0810
> distributions are identical, apart from the .exe files. Allegro-4.4.2-mt
> (not Allegro-4.4.2.mt) is certainly the same.
>
> I've just switched from 0810 to 089, and back again, just by swapping
> the .exe files, as I suggested. No problem.

With no respect to Tony, if you try this it might work, but if you try
this it *will* bite you at some upgrade in the future.

Libraries, RISC OS support modules, support files and pretty much anything
can change between builds and I in no way want to have the support
nightmare of people mixing and matching and rolling their own unknown
versions of the program, and then complaining it doesn't work.

Peter

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Peter Howkins
peter.howkins@marutan.net

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