Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

[Valentin Villenave]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Patches appreciated.  I don't have a clue why this happens.

It's because LilyPond uses the NSIS scons-enabled "list all installed
files, and then only remove what's been installed" mode. It would be
easier and quicker to have an non-logged installation and then only do
rm -rf (or the Windows equivalent), but then if a user has put some
valuable data in LilyPond installation (sub)folder, this data could be
lost. What we do is the safest way, however its slowness (and I'm not
sure we should change it).

An easy workaround is to delete everything but one line in the
files.txt file, and then delete everything manually.

Cheers,
Valentin.