[audacity4blind] Re: .exe and .zip files for new Audacity 1.3.1
- From: <petrakigianos-giasou@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:02:46 -0800 (PST)
Now I understand all this. Basically I know it as installing
over the top of one's existing software version on his/her PC.
Job well done explaining and helping with this.
Let us know when its no longer beta software.
Petro
--- "David R. Sky" <davidsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Petro,
>
> You wrote: > So why am I seeing a .zip and .exe files to
> install Audacity on
> > this list? Can I just download the .exe file and install
> like I
> > always have?
> >
> David: The newest version of Audacity (1.3.0 and 1.3.1) do not
> have all
> the bugs worked out. Audacity 1.3.0 is an executable install
> file with all
> the necessary files, but 1.3.1 is just one file
> (audacity.exe.) zipped
> into a zip file. Audacity 1.3.0 has many new keyboard
> commands, but many
> of them don't work properly. However, if you install 1.3.0
> then copy
> the 1.3.1 audacity.exe file over the 1.3.0 audacity.exe file,
> many more of
> the new
> keyboard commands are working and installed.
>
> Once all the bugs are worked out, then we'll have a single
> executable
> installer file to install the newest audacity 1.3.1. Which is
> what "beta"
> means - it's still being tested in public. And if you or
> anyone else have
> a problem with the program, report them here and I'll pass
> them on to the
> development list.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> David
>
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