Marco Tech Blog

March 2, 2012

Delphi XE2 Update 4

Two days after official release, I've installed Update 4 of Delphi XE2. Was a bit worried, everything went well.

posted by marcocantu @ 8:55AM | 7 Comments [0 Pending]

My experience: 

10:48: start uninstaller
10:52: "Error writing to file: 
C:\Config.Msi\6ef156.rbf. Verify that you have access 
to that directory" (of course I don't, it's a 
protected OS dir, but the installer is running via 
Windows Installer, isn't it??). "Retry" seems to 
work...
10:55: Uninstall has finished. Uninstalling help & 
tools... PAServer has no hint is an Embarcadero 
product... hope I'll find them all...
11:01: I should have uninstalled everything.
11:04: The update release notes say "Uninstall the 
product. For instructions, see Installation Notes for 
XE2#Uninstalling the Product.". But that also say to 
remove configuration options. Should I and do a 
config again or is it safe to leave them in place? 
Don't want to reconfig, hope it is safe to leave them 
there...
11:06: starting installer, where's my S/N?
11:09: ok, uncheck again what I should not install 
(because I already have full licenses...)
11:21: Finished... configurations are still there. 
Now setup PAServer, look for it (why Deutsch is the 
default language??)
11:25: Hope everything is done - why there is no in-
place update?

(note: I don't have SSD disks just 15k rpm SAS disks.)

Comment by on March 2, 10:33

Delphi XE2 Update 4 

Do you have any information why a fresh install is 
needed? With many components installed this is a mess...

Comment by André on March 2, 10:59

Delphi XE2 Update 4 

My experience:
March, 1st, Thrusday:
9.15."There is a new update available" message box
from the system tray icon. Click on it and begin the
process. 
9.30. Begin to be tired waiting on the "Validating
install" message...
9.45. I went for a coffe.
10.00. It needs my action. Next, next, and so... It
begins the actual installation, the step labeled as
"Executing"
10.15. Tired again of waiting. Go to help a partner
with something.
10.45. I Returned, it is Installing "Boost Libraries
for C++ Builder".
11.00. It is still installing "Boost Libraries"...
11.30. Finally it has finished! Ohh, I have to do more
things and it hasn't actually finished.
12.00. Everything is installed! Hopefully it will work
everything as expected.
12.30. I realized that the fonts are unreadable and
all the effects are freezing.
13.00 I realized that when I recompile after debug,
the compiler does not release the .exe file, so it
throw an error each time I debug-recompile...
13.30. The IDE hangs up.
13.35. I restart the PC.
13.40. The problems still affect.

March, 2nd, Friday:

9.15. Repairing Delphi with the .iso downloaded with
Update 3. Returning back to where I was (hopefully)
11.00. The process is still working....

VERY VERY VERY bad user experience.

Best regards,
Rubén

Comment by Ruben Valls on March 2, 11:05

Delphi XE2 Update 4 

André:

I have downloaded the ISO and prep'd a DVD.

Then I have run the ISO without (!) a previous
uninstall. The installer detects the old version and
ask for uninstallation. Just confirm. Then the install
runs as described by Marco.
(Exception: as I use the TeeChart package I have not
installed TChart with the ISO.)
Finally the installation has finished. All my
additional packages and settings (e.g. library) are
still working.
(Exception: XE2.4 complained about some FMX part of
TChart, but a simple TeeRecompile did the job).

So just run the ISO and everything should get (nearly)
fine.

Best regards
Uli

Comment by Uli Brueggemann on March 2, 11:18

Delphi XE2 Update 4 

My experience was not so good.
On a Windows 2008 server machine I first try to run
the "Check for updates" application: it found the
update 4 and I was able to start the upgrade easily
but.. "J# runtime 2.0 could be updated" error appers.
After that the installation process was aborted and
when I try to run again "Check for updates", it told
me that no update was available! It's a kind of a
one-shot gun application..
So unistall -> iso download -> run setup.. and same
error again!
I found the solution here in a message of Sniffi Kipod
about a setup error of Delphi 2007 (!!!):
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=15622
I run this:
mklink C:\Users\%USERNAME%\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET /D
and then, finally, the setup application ran successfully.

Comment by Domenico [http://www.atomos.it] on March 2, 16:22

Delphi XE2 Update 4 

 Thanks Uli... That's good news...

Comment by André Meier on March 5, 20:41

Delphi XE2 Update 4 

 I think I might wait until Update 10 or something.  
It's a massive time waster having to resintall all of 
the components every time an update comes out.

Comment by Steve Gill on March 7, 00:52