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Title: Application Name in v5 with a strange dash - inside
Post by: rarnold on October 24, 2024, 02:09:13 PM
Dear colleagues,
I am a long-term user of v4 using "patchmypc.exe" and this is the default application (i.e. program) name of v4.
In release 5 you change that in "PatchMyPC-HomeUpdater.exe" with a strange dash inside the name - IMHO it
should be shorter and smoother like "PatchMyPC5.exe" or "PatchMyPCX.exe" (x=extended, v5).
v5 (5.001) seems to be already in a "RTM" stage. No obstacles or errors so far updating a couple of outdated apps.

Greetings Ronald
Title: Re: Application Name in v5 with a strange dash - inside
Post by: OldNavyGuy on October 25, 2024, 03:56:02 AM
Can't really see an upside to renaming the executable...

Most folks are just going to click on a Desktop shortcut, or the Start menu entry, and run the app.

They won't really care what the EXE is called.
Title: Re: Application Name in v5 with a strange dash - inside
Post by: Omar (Patch My PC) on October 25, 2024, 08:01:24 AM
This is mainly because we have several Patch My PC applications, and they all have the same format now: "PatchMyPC-AppName.exe"
Title: Re: Application Name in v5 with a strange dash - inside
Post by: rarnold on October 25, 2024, 08:23:57 AM
Ok, understandable if you have a series of applications
Title: Re: Application Name in v5 with a strange dash - inside
Post by: Omar (Patch My PC) on October 25, 2024, 12:14:19 PM
Yeah, this is a small example:

Title: Re: Application Name in v5 with a strange dash - inside
Post by: rarnold on October 25, 2024, 12:41:58 PM
Quote from: Omar (Patch My PC) on October 25, 2024, 12:14:19 PMYeah, this is a small example:


Thanks for the clarification, Omar!
BTW: I am not happy with the - as your delimiter but it will work 
I am a member of the old school Unix naming, keep it simple and stupid or short and stupid ;)