Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

[Valentin Villenave]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a
> known list of files?

Yes :-)

> is the installer looking at some windows database to get the
> filelist?

Nope, the registry database isn't involved at all.

> (I suppose that somebody could theoretically modify one of the
> base lilypond files -- probably a .ly -- and lose those changes,
> but I'm not worried about that.  If they're screwing with the
> installed files, then they should be advanced enough to either
> know what they're doing, or mature enough to take the hit when
> they lose work due to their own fault)

Then we could just rewrite the NSIS installer without logging, and
simply do a rmdir -f in the uninstall script. But that's a bit
intrusive.

Cheers,
Valentin