Help>About Reporting 0.4.0-Beta not 0.5.3.1 #977

FourthDr commented at 5:09 PM on March 22, 2012: none

Bitcoin for windows version 0.5.3.1 is reporting 0.4.0-Beta in the Help>About menu. This is a non-critical error. Version 0.5.1 also reported 0.4.0-Beta in the help>about menu. I guess someone simply forgot to update the piece of code responsible for displaying the correct version number?

laanwj commented at 10:27 AM on March 25, 2012: member

@luke-jr should probably update the version string

sipa commented at 9:11 PM on March 25, 2012: member

Are you sure you're running 0.5.3.1?

luke-jr commented at 9:14 PM on March 25, 2012: member

Is it possible you are still running 0.4.0? Bitcoin-Qt doesn't delete the old wxBitcoin client...

sipa commented at 9:14 PM on March 25, 2012: member

Actually, 0.5.3.1 does not have a "Help/About" menu, only a "Help/About Bitcoin-Qt" menu...

FourthDr commented at 10:38 PM on March 25, 2012: none

I am using 0.5.3.1. I downloaded the Windows binary installer from the bitcoin website and upgraded my earlier version 0.5.1 which also reported 0.4.0-Beta. And yes there is a Help>About on the main menu on the main screen. Here is exactly what it says:

Bitcoin version 0.4.0-beta Copyright c bitcoin Developers

This is experimental software.

Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http:/openssl.org) and cyptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.

sipa commented at 10:41 PM on March 25, 2012: member

If the menu entry is called "About", and not "About Bitcoin-Qt", you are most certainly running a 0.4.x version.

Probably the old binary (bitcoin.exe) was not removed when you upgraded to a newer one (where the binary is called bitcoin-qt.exe), and you still have shortcuts to the old one?

FourthDr commented at 10:59 PM on March 25, 2012: none

sipa:

You are right! The shortcut was wrong, pointing to bitcoin.exe. And there is a bitcion.exe still there in addition to the bitcoin-qt.exe. So does this still qualify as a bug? Since the installer did not correctly delete the old exe and update the shortcuts?? :-D

FourthDr commented at 11:01 PM on March 25, 2012: none

Is there any reason that I should not delete the old bitcoin.exe under c:\Program Files\bitcoin?

FourthDr commented at 11:03 PM on March 25, 2012: none

Also, seems like the olde UI provided more useful information about connections/transaction/#BTC all on one page than the new UI does. :-|

TheBlueMatt commented at 12:32 AM on March 26, 2012: member

I thought that bug was fixed, though now that I look at setup.nsi, it doesnt look like it... :(

Is there any reason that I should not delete the old bitcoin.exe under c:\Program Files\bitcoin? <-- no

Also, seems like the olde UI provided more useful information about connections/transaction/#BTC all on one page than the new UI does. :-| <-- common complaint, but the old ui was written in an unsupported development version of wx, and since we had no wx programmers at the time (still dont), it was decided that moving to a much better supported toolkit was much more important than minor UI gripes. Also, a new UI design is in the works, likely to be released as a part of 0.7, see http://188.138.99.157/stuff/qtvert17.png (still a WIP)

gavinandresen commented at 3:00 PM on March 26, 2012: contributor

We need to teach the 0.6 setup.nsi to remove the old wx .exe and shortcuts.

Diapolo commented at 8:17 PM on March 26, 2012: none

@TheBlueMatt For the new GUI, is it possible to make the last bar in the "connection-quality" symbol green ... I did never understand, why it's more like yellow (and am no graphics artist ^^).

gavinandresen commented at 2:34 PM on March 28, 2012: contributor

The 0.6rc5 setup.nsi removes the old wx .exe, and shortcuts are overwritten, so this is fixed.

You can still shoot yourself in the foot if file permissions are wrong (e.g. install bitcoin as administrator, then install a new version without admin rights), but I think the answer to that is "Don't do that!"

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