From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
Cc: 68756@debbugs.gnu.org, Dilyan.Palauzov@aegee.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#68756: bug#67667: bug#68756: Uninstalling emacs does not remove Start Menu entries created during the installation
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:30:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861q9dwmmq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJf-WoSswcEoDydOv8fnaunU2ZTQ2=it_Asz__Wf2_dDbrp2fA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Corwin Brust on Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:47:18 -0600)
> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:47:18 -0600
> Cc: 68756@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 12:27 PM Дилян Палаузов
> <Dilyan.Palauzov@aegee.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Corwin,
> >
> > before installing emacs-29.2.50_bug#58756-installer.exe I have installed emacs-29.2-installer.exe . The latter has created a Start Menu group emacs 29.2 with two icons - emacs and uninstall. After installing emacs-29.2.50_bug#58756-installer.exe it creates separate Start Menu directory 29.2.50. The Start menu Emacs 29.2/uninstall disappears. After clicking Start Menu/emacs 29.2.50/uninstall the entry Emacs 29.2/uninstall appears again, but it is now dysfunctional. Apart from this, uninstalling 29.2.50 does remove the Start Menu entries it has created. I cannot test if two different versions work during install/uninstall as expected, since I have no two different versions which are at the same time “fixed”.
> >
>
> Thank you very much for testing Дилян. This is as I would expect: I
> won't be able to change the behavior of previously created installers.
>
> For this reason we should probably put out some type of advisory that
> using executing any version of the installer published so far will
> unconditionally remove <program files>\Emacs and all version of Emacs
> therein.
>
> Stefan, Eli,
>
> Do you have thoughts on alerting users of the windows installer to
> this, and how we would best do that? (Is this a good candidate for
> PROBLEMS?)
No, PROBLEMS is not a good place, I think.
But why cannot you remove those old shortcuts/submenus when the new
Emacs version is installed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-15 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-27 9:24 bug#68756: Uninstalling emacs does not remove Start Menu entries created during the installation Дилян Палаузов
2024-01-28 3:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-28 17:56 ` Corwin Brust
2024-01-28 20:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-02-11 22:56 ` bug#67667: " Corwin Brust
2024-02-15 18:27 ` Дилян Палаузов
2024-02-15 18:47 ` bug#68756: bug#67667: " Corwin Brust
2024-02-15 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-15 20:32 ` Corwin Brust
2024-02-16 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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