Re: Win32 Plugin Installation Paths

Kevin M Stange wrote:

> I see a lot of instances of people upgrading Gaim and finding that 
> Gaim has removed parts of their third-party plugin installations.  
> Plugins with installers install to c:\Program Files\Gaim (or other 
> Gaim installation directory) and the installation process always 
> uninstalls the old Gaim before installing the new one, leaving the 
> potential that files installed by Gaim's plugins may be removed.
>
> 1) Let plugins keep installing where they do.  Modify the installation 
> of Gaim to "upgrade" rather than Uninstall.  This means we have to 
> keep the installer updated with a list of deprecated files, so that we 
> know which files must be removed on account of being outdated before 
> we copy new files. 

Doesn't the uninstaller know which files it installed? It sounds like 
the uninstaller is dumb and just does rm -rf C:\Program Files\Gaim, 
instead of removing just the files it installed, and just the 
directories it installed iff they're empty. If this is the case, I vote 
for making the uninstaller better, unless there's other advantages to #2 
above and beyond the main problem you're trying to solve.

--Tim



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