Should LabVIEW Service Packs be a Separate Install?

[jgcode]

Should LabVIEW Service Packs be a separate install and not an upgrade?

I want to highlight this thread on the darkside as I think it is very interesting and would like to hear what others think here on LAVA.

vadym']"We do ask for activation for SP1 because it is considered a separate release."

Well, if so, it should be installd in a separete place.

Othervice, I had to uninstall SP1 and reinstall LV2010, just becouse my lic expired and SP1 overwrite my working LV2010.

Never had this problem before... confused by this update.

It you consider it as a separate release, make it SEPARETE. But not overwriting my working LV2010 to find out I can't use it after.

Vadym

[/color]Please discuss.

[Phillip Brooks]

See my response on the NI forum.

[jgcode]

See my response on the NI forum.

I subscribed to both forums, but I agree its probably best to keep the thread going over there rather than start here.