After the installation version is not updated for the first time about ballerina-update-tool HOT 5 CLOSED

This will happen if we install the new version when we have already a ballerina version installed. This is due to when we issue the bal -v, ballerina version and language-specific version are printed from the ballerina-lang first, and then update tool version is printed from the update tool. But when getting the BALLERINA_HOME we use the .ballerina/ballerina-version file. However ballerina version updation logic is inside the update tool. So for the first time, it is not updated. So it picks the already installed version as the default version for the first time.

Suggestions:

1. We could update the ballerina-version during the post-installation. However, permission issues needs to be considered as the installation will be performed by the root user. Then we don't need the installer version file as well.
2. We could move the logic of the checks of the installer version should be moved to the lang repo.

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As the third case shall we inform the user to remove the existing version before installing the new one ? Also we can suggest user to do bal dist updated instead.

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As the third case shall we inform the user to remove the existing version before installing the new one ? Also we can suggest user to do bal dist updated instead.

Yes, we can ask the user to do so. Now also we suggest the user to update to get the latest. Then we can remove the installer version file as well.

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This issue should fix with this #60

Ok now i realized this will fail for the first time as -v calls lang first and then call update tool. To solve this we can issue a bal dist list after the installation as a workaround. This update tool should cleanup

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