Beta 3 Testing

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:18:08PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 5 October 2015 at 10:16, John Smith <noseygit at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > I had done an uninstall prior to installing but some of the logs were
> >> > kept from the last installation and loaded at startup.
> >>
> >> Yes, we intentionally keep settings and data files. Do you think that's a
> >> mistake?
> >>
> > Ater a uninstall I would have expected a clean installation with no
> > previous fles - maybe as part of the uninstall routine you could change the
> > names to .old or put them in a different location
> >
> 
> what we do is something that a lot of Windows software does...
> it installs in a program directory but it keeps some of it
> files/settings on the user computer on uninstall without telling.
> that's not optimal, but like i said, 95% of the Windows software does the same.
> 
> what we could do is add the uninstall options to remove the left overs:
> 
> - user directory
> moving files to .old becomes difficult to maintain.
> we should allow deleting the whole directory e.g.:
> C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\Subsurface

I'm not an expert on NSI files... I'm sure this is something that could be
added to our .nsi file.

> - cloud storage cache directory
> C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Subsurface
> currently this is in a separate path from the other user directory
> which makes no sense. we should use the same path and add
> sub-directory called git-cache.

Possibly. But I question whether we should do this after Beta 3 has been
released. Stuff like this frustrates me. This has been in the code for
MONTHS.

> both paths can be stored in the registry from where NSIS would know
> what to delete.
> 
> - registry
> this can be nuked completely as the last step. i really like software
> that bothers exposing a checkbox for that.
> but i don't really know how to do checkboxes in NSIS, yet.

So who is fluent in NSIS?

/D