Patches appreciated. I don't have a clue why this happens. Cheers, - Graham
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:39:31PM +0000, David Bobroff wrote: > I've noticed a similar difference between Linux and Windows uninstall > times. My Windows machine is a few years old; 3GHz Pentium with 2Gb RAM > and the Linux box is a much older machine; 733MHz with maybe 768Mb RAM. > The uninstall on the much slower Linux hardware is a few seconds, while > on the much faster Windows hardware the uninstall takes much > longer...but not anything like 32 minutes to reach 80%. Uninstall on my > Windows (XP) takes maybe a few minutes. > > I remember once starting an uninstall on Windows and while that was > going on I went to my Linux box, uninstalled LilyPond, downloaded a > newer LP and installed it before the Windows had completed the uninstall. > > -David > > Nick Payne wrote: >> When I install a new version I uninstall the previous one. I have >> noticed, for quite a few versions now, that the uninstall takes a long >> time. I just downloaded 2.13.7 and am waiting for the uninstall of >> 2.13.4 to complete. It has been running for about 32 minutes so far and >> the uninstall progress bar is at about 80%. >> >> This machine is dual boot. If I boot into Ubuntu and run the uninstall >> of the same version, it takes only a few seconds to complete. I've >> tried on two different Windows machines, one running Windows 7 and one >> running XP, and the extremely slow uninstall happens on both. >> Installation on both runs quite satisfactorily. >> >> Nick >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
