On 2010-10-27, at 7:45 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files > behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files. > It's simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the > profile -- I have worked at multiple companies where leaving behind any > breadcrumbs (anything that wasn't created by File Save) after an uninstall > was considered a major bug.
I disagree with this statement. On unix like systems it's standard practice to store user specific settings in a file or directory like ~/.thePackage . Just because someone removes/replaces/updates the software does not mean that *anything* should happen to the contents of that file or directory. It's even worse on systems with more than one user. I think that it's better to decouple the per-user settings and preferences from the package installation entirely. Just my $L0.02. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
