<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2010-02-13, at 1:25 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:22:49 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar<br><<a href="mailto:sridharr@activestate.com">sridharr@activestate.com</a>> declaimed the following in<br>gmane.comp.python.general:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.5.5.7 is now available for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">download from:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://www.activestate.com/activepython/">http://www.activestate.com/activepython/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>This seems to be the first Windows installer I recall that can't<br>"update" over an earlier 2.5.x version... It want's me to wipe out<br>(uninstall) my existing base before it will allow for installation (bad<br>enough it need admin privileges -- I'm going to be dead at work the next<br>time they "refresh" my desktop machine as they no longer allow users to<br>have local admin rights)</span></blockquote></div><br><div>This is probably due to <a href="http://firefly.activestate.com/shanec/activepython/ticket/11">http://firefly.activestate.com/shanec/activepython/ticket/11</a> where the MSI product code for 64-bit installer was changed to be different from the 32-bit one. Specifically the product codes used are:</div><div><br></div><div><=2.5.4.4: "a2e24bd9-085b-410f-aad0-5eb5fa5d73d2" </div><div><br></div><div>>=2.5.4.6 32-bit: "a2e24bd9-085b-410f-aad0-5eb5fa5d73d2", </div><div>>=2.5.4.5 64-bit: "64e24bd9-085b-410f-aad0-5eb5fa5d73d2", </div><div><br></div><div>Consequently 64-bit installers for 2.X will have different MSI product code from 2.5.4.6 onwards. </div><div><br></div><div>Was your "update" issue happening only with the 64-bit installer of 2.5.5.7?</div><div><br></div><div>-srid</div></body></html>