Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5847] Multiple WS versions installed; Only 1 registry entr
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:11:09 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5847

Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-19 09:11:08 PDT ---
This was discussed on the Q&A site a few months ago, along with a couple of
workarounds:

http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/321/installing-two-separate-instances-of-wireshark-on-the-same-machine

It should be possible to update wireshark.nsi to use more self-contained
filesystem and registry paths. An obvious thing to do is to add a version
number to InstallDir. 

One big exception to this is file extension association. As far as I know, we
can only associate an extension (e.g. ".pcap") with one version at a time. What
happens if someone installs version X, then version Y, then uninstalls version
Y? Do we try to re-associate the extensions with version X or orphan them?

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