Add a "repair installation" button to the updater

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The automatic updater for ImageJ

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Add a "repair installation" button to the updater #13

Open ctrueden opened 10 years ago

ctrueden commented 10 years ago

Sometimes things are screwed up in one of only a few common ways:

contradicting file versions
files with different versions of the same classes
missing files

We could have a "repair installation" button for these common problems. Or maybe even detect the situations upon startup of the updater.

Migrated-From: http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/1894

ctrueden commented 10 years ago

As discussed with @dscho today: we might want to expose such a "button" from the command line (i.e., via the launcher), so that in cases where ImageJ won't even start up due to JAR version skew or whatnot, the installation can still be repaired. Generally speaking, a very difficult problem...