[racket] Upgrading from 4.2 to 5.0 (Racket)

Thank you, Eli. I did [c] and it worked smoothly.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Jun 14, Greg Hendershott wrote:
>> Apologies if this was on the download page or release notes but I
>> couldn't find it.
>>
>> What is the best way to upgrade from 4.2 to 5.0?
>>
>> Some possibilities I can imagine, multiple choice:
>>
>> [a] Install 5.0. (Maybe it's an in-place upgrade, 5.0 will find/use
>> 4.2 prefs/config and remove 4.2?)
>> [b] Install 5.0,then uninstall 4.2.  (Maybe so 5.0 can find/use
>> existing 4.2 prefs/config?)
>> [c] Uninstall 4.2, then install 5.0. (Maybe the uninstall of 4.2 would
>> somehow foobar 5.0?)
>>
>> ?
>
> If this is on Windows, then the installers won't find the PLT
> installation, which means that [a] will work, but you'll still have
> the old copy of PLT.  I think that [b] will lose the .ss/.scm
> association when the PLT installer is removed (but I don't remember
> how the association is stored, it might not make a difference).  So
> option [c] should should be fine -- the preferences are stored in your
> user-specific settings, and those are not removed with the
> uninstaller.  (And the directory where they're stored is different
> now, but if the new preferences directory doesn't exist and the old
> one does, then it will copy and use the old one.)
>
> If you're on OSX/Linux, then [c] should work fine too.  (I think that
> OSX has some way to associate files, but no idea how...)
>
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