> On 30 Mar 2020, at 02:03, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:24:03 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>
> declaimed the following:
>
>> To clarify, the pydev/python.org installer does not use msi. I don't
>> know that anyone else does. And if someone did, why do you think it
>> would also uninstall the current installation?
>
> Because, if you did find an MSI installer, and installed the same
> version /over/ the existing install (same directory), then the MSI
> uninstall would be removing contents from that directory.
And then you will have a registry that knows about 2 installs only one of which
you can remove.
This is not a good idea.
Barry
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