Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files
behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files. It's
simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the profile
-- I have worked at multiple companies where leaving behind any breadcrumbs
(anything that wasn't created by File Save) after an uninstall was considered a
major bug.
Now I do think we can try do better; asking about deletion is on the Snowstorm
backlog. Installers are always tricky and hard to test, and very often the
uninstaller comes "for free" with writing the installer. It's also specialized,
platform-specific code, sometimes in a strange language, so it's not easy to
find devs who want to work on it.
There's work going on right now that will probably affect this, and we'll make
sure this is considered.
Q
On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> The uninstaller shouldn't remove ANYTHING in the user's profile, period. It's
> not being "unclear" by removing files in the user's profile when it removes
> files in the Program Files directory, it's simply doing the wrong thing. This
> has been an ongoing problem for years, I suspect there's a Jira about it.
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