Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

[Graham Percival]

Patches appreciated.  I don't have a clue why this happens.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:39:31PM +0000, David Bobroff wrote:
> I've noticed a similar difference between Linux and Windows uninstall  
> times.  My Windows machine is a few years old; 3GHz Pentium with 2Gb RAM  
> and the Linux box is a much older machine; 733MHz with maybe 768Mb RAM.  
> The uninstall on the much slower Linux hardware is a few seconds, while 
> on the much faster Windows hardware the uninstall takes much  
> longer...but not anything like 32 minutes to reach 80%.  Uninstall on my  
> Windows (XP) takes maybe a few minutes.
>
> I remember once starting an uninstall on Windows and while that was  
> going on I went to my Linux box, uninstalled LilyPond, downloaded a  
> newer LP and installed it before the Windows had completed the uninstall.
>
> -David
>
> Nick Payne wrote:
>> When I install a new version I uninstall the previous one. I have  
>> noticed, for quite a few versions now, that the uninstall takes a long  
>> time. I just downloaded 2.13.7 and am waiting for the uninstall of  
>> 2.13.4 to complete. It has been running for about 32 minutes so far and 
>> the uninstall progress bar is at about 80%.
>>
>> This machine is dual boot. If I boot into Ubuntu and run the uninstall  
>> of the same version, it takes only a few seconds to complete. I've 
>> tried on two different Windows machines, one running Windows 7 and one 
>> running XP, and the extremely slow uninstall happens on both. 
>> Installation on both runs quite satisfactorily.
>>
>> Nick
>>
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