MCUXpresso Update

[wolfgangschmidt]

MCUXpresso 10.0.2 was only available as full version. Therefore each Setting must be done again in the IDE.

MCUXpresso 10.1.1 also seems to be only available as complete package. Therefore each Setting must be done again in the IDE.

Are you serious? Most Programms can just be updated, so a user does not loose settings and does not need to Register third party plugins again.

Only having full installers is something that . well if we had known from start of the current Project we have used a proc of another vendor.

Will every future release also be a full install?

[lpcxpresso_supp]

We recognise your point, and allowing "software updates" to allow new releases to be installed via a "patch" rather than only through a full installer is on our roadmap. Unfortunately we've been delivering the IDE - in its MCUXpresso incarnation, as well as the earlier LPCXpresso IDE and Red Suite products - in the current way for a long time now. And providing a patch model of updating requires a major rework of the way the IDE product is both structured and built. And for various reasons, this work has not yet reached the top of our queue for implementation.

In the meantime, we would generally recommend the following flow when a new IDE release becomes available....

Install the new release in parallel with the original version. This allows you to evaluate the new release before committing to using it for your main product development work.

When using the new version, use a new workspace - to keep your new "evaluation" world separate from your old "development" world. You can very easily copy your projects from your existing workspace to your new workspace - for example by checking them out of version control again, or simply using the IDE's Quickstart Panel option to "Import project(s) from file system..." and pointing at the root directory of your existing workspace.

Preferences can also be imported from your existing workspace to your new workspace. To do this run your old IDE installation, and use "File -> Export -> General -> Preferences" to export. Then in your new IDE installation use "File -> Import -> General -> Preferences" to pull your preferences in.

Finally, if you have installed additional plugins into your original IDE installation, then you can also import these across. To do this, from your new installation select "File -> Import -> Install -> From Existing Installation" and point at the "ide" directory within your original IDE's installation directory. [Note that on Mac OS X / Linux - this option will effectively run automatically the first time you run the new version of the IDE.]

Regards,
MCUXpresso IDE Support

[wolfgangschmidt]

Thank you for the quick reply.

Last time i installed addons via eclipse Marketplace - which also have own settings which are made in preferences. 

If I do not uninstall MCUXpresso but only install the new version - I have no possibility to deinstall the old one from Add/Remove Programms, as only one MCUXpresso is shown there. Maybe you can add a Version number in installer so different versions can be uninstalled in a common way.

[lpcxpresso_supp]

Thank you for the input on the uninstaller as viewed in Add/Remove Programs.

The simplest way to handle this today is to uninstall via the version specific entry in the Windows Start menu or else the run the uninstaller exe by navigating to the appropriate installation directory (generally inside c:\nxp) using Windows Explorer.

Regards,

MCUXpresso IDE Support.