On 2010-10-27, at 09:45, 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.
If the files are unambiguously owned by that specific instance of the program, and there is no likelihood that other instances of the program might be still installed, that might be true. Most programs are single-instance. Once uninstalled, it will never be installed again. That doesn't apply to files that are shared by multiple programs, and it doesn't apply to documents created by the program. Whether chat logs should be considered documents or log files is perhaps debatable, but that it's even debatable should be enough to exempt them from automatic deletion. And for Second Life, where it's routine to install and uninstall beta versions of the program, and where beta versions share files with the regular install, it shouldn't even be considered. _______________________________________________ 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
