minimserver 0.8.1 crashes following a relaunch or a restart

[simoncn]

(19-12-2013 17:25)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  Simon,
I did a complete uninstall/reinstall, making sure the Program Files\MinimServer directory was empty before the install (in fact, it was gone altogether following the uninstall through the Config Panel). I did not touch however the config directory (Appdata\Roaming\MinimServer\data). I could not reproduce the relaunch problem. Weird. I however noticed, after going to the Packages tab, that minimstreamer was shown as being installed. Is this normal ?

I uninstalled the minimstreamer package, exited minimserver, reinstalled and installed the whole thing again. This time, the package was shown as uninstalled in the Packages tab, and I could do an install like I originally did when I installed minim 0.8.1 for the first time. Does that mean that, after having been installed, a package is marked as such inside the config directory, and that the minimserver install procedure automatically reinstalls packages marked as "installed" in the config directory ? I am just curious here.

Regards

The handling of installed packages when MinimServer is uninstalled varies by platform. On most platforms, the folder containing the installed packages is not removed by an uninstall. This is why you saw that MinimStreamer was still installed. It would be the same if you did an update of MinimServer to a new version, assuming that the old MinimStreamer is compatible with the new MinimServer. If not, the new version of MinimServer would detect the conflict and remove MinimStreamer.