Re: various Lilypond 2.9 Win-uninstaller problems

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Uwe Stöhr schreef:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys schrieb:
>
> > > I tested the latest Lilypond 2.9.16 for Windows and found out that it 
> > > is not correctly uninstalled. After uninstalling it the following 
> > > folders remain:
> > >
> > > \usr\etc
> > > \usr\lib
> > >
> > > and its subfolders. The installation directory should completely be 
> > > removed.
>
> With Lilypond 2.9.18 also the folder
>
> \usr\var remains.f
>
> > I've switched on logging for the Mingw installer. Can you (un)install 
> > 2.9.18 with /s when it comes out? This will generate an installation 
> > log, which will hopefully provide some clues.
>
> I did this. The logfile is attached. The problem is that the folder
>
> \usr\etc can't be deleted because the file "fontconfig.reloc" is in use. 
> I get an eror message that a program is using it and that the file could 
> therefore not be deleted.
> The same is for the folder \usr\lb where "aifc.py" is in use.
> Of course there are more files in use.
> In \usr\var it is the folder "fontconfig" that could for an unknown 
> reason not be deleted.

This is really strange. The only program using that should be 
lilypond.exe itself. Please investigate.

> Btw. I noticed that you are using Python 2.4. Perhaps an update to 
> python 2.5 could be an advantage. Then you need at least less files to 
> ship with the installer so it becomes a bit smaller.

usually newer releases get bigger, I'd expect the contrary.

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