Hi all,
what’s the typical way to update to a newer version of the Corona SDK?
Do I just install any new version ontop of a previous installation without any issues or is it required to uninstall an older version first?
Best regards,
Michael
Start Corona & got to Welcome Screen :
There you will see UPGRADE button of blue color.
Just click it & upgrade.
And no need to uninstall , you can directly upgrade.
-Assif
On Windows you can only have one copy. If you’re using a public build or daily build, downloading the installer and running it will properly replace it.
On a Mac, it’s not quite the same. We allow multiple copies. The latest public build will always install into /Applications/CoronaSDK. Daily builds, however will install into /Applications/CoronaSDK-nnnn where nnnn is the build number. For instance if you download Corona from the downloads page you get:
/Applications/CoronaSDK
If you download 2992, which is the public build, but you grab it from the daily builds page, you end up with:
/Applications/CoronaSDK-2992
If you also grab the latest daily build, you end up with:
/Applications/CoronaSDK-3023
And you can run any of these as needed.
Rob
Thanks for the fast answers.
Would probably be great to think about allowing multiple versions on Windows too (I guess it’s not supported because of some registry entries?) as sometimes, it can be quite handy to use new versions while still be confident to update existing apps/games with a stable release.
Not an issue for me as I just start toying around with Corona at the moment 
Having multiple versions of the same app installed on Windows is problematic. We’ve investigated it but the operating system makes this a tough challenge.
Rob
Start Corona & got to Welcome Screen :
There you will see UPGRADE button of blue color.
Just click it & upgrade.
And no need to uninstall , you can directly upgrade.
-Assif
On Windows you can only have one copy. If you’re using a public build or daily build, downloading the installer and running it will properly replace it.
On a Mac, it’s not quite the same. We allow multiple copies. The latest public build will always install into /Applications/CoronaSDK. Daily builds, however will install into /Applications/CoronaSDK-nnnn where nnnn is the build number. For instance if you download Corona from the downloads page you get:
/Applications/CoronaSDK
If you download 2992, which is the public build, but you grab it from the daily builds page, you end up with:
/Applications/CoronaSDK-2992
If you also grab the latest daily build, you end up with:
/Applications/CoronaSDK-3023
And you can run any of these as needed.
Rob
Thanks for the fast answers.
Would probably be great to think about allowing multiple versions on Windows too (I guess it’s not supported because of some registry entries?) as sometimes, it can be quite handy to use new versions while still be confident to update existing apps/games with a stable release.
Not an issue for me as I just start toying around with Corona at the moment
Having multiple versions of the same app installed on Windows is problematic. We’ve investigated it but the operating system makes this a tough challenge.
Rob