[REVIEW-3-5][REVIEW-3-5-5] clean uninstall on Windows
Jesús Corrius
jesus at softcatala.org
Thu Jun 21 00:36:44 PDT 2012
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Andras Timar <timar74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of days ago I fixed the RegisterExtensions custom action,
> which runs unopkg.exe during install and pre-registers bundled
> extensions. The counterpart of this custom action, the
> RemoveExtensions is supposed to remove shared\prereg\bundled directory
> during uninstall. Unfortunately RemoveExtensions does not work. It
> must be a deferred execution custom action, because it modifies the
> system, but the original session handle and property data set during
> the installation sequence is not available to a deferred execution
> custom action. So it is not possible to get the value of FINDPRODUCT,
> not to mention that by that time all registry values are removed, so
> it would not work even if we had FINDPRODUCT.
>
> The solution is to pass the install location via CustomActionData
> property. Please find attached the patch for 3.5. It is essential to
> Intel AppUp build (already applied there), but it is nice to have in
> community builds, too, because uninstaller should not left files in
> installation directory.
Looks good: +1
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Jesús Corrius <jesus at softcatala.org>
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