[haiku-development] Re: software organization/installation
- From: Remi Grumeau <remi.grumeau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:16:58 +0100
>
> Here is the difference I see:
> With the "Windows way" the app developer/packager needs to take care to
> write some installer app, that does this job of registering and
> unregistering on (un)installation. This is what, from what I
> experienced, does not work at all on Windows. If you accidently manually
> remove the software and then see that it's in the installed software
> list, often enough you have no chance to get it out there because the
> installer is buggy and doesn't handle this and other user errors.
>
Revo Unistaller had saved my life a couple of times since it clears all
registration keys and files left after the unistaller process.
But yes, that the developper chrge to create a Installer / Unistaller, which
is crap
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