Uninstaller

Misha Koshelev mk144210 at bcm.edu
Thu Jun 14 17:31:47 CDT 2007


> On 6/14/07, Misha Koshelev <mk144210 at bcm.edu> wrote:
> > Actually that brings up a good point, does anything ever get written to
> > Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion in HKEY_CURRENT_USER in windows? I have no such
> > key on my (rather plain) XP install, and from what I can tell wine MSI never writes
> > to this key (see dlls/msi/registry.c, function MSIREG_OpenUninstallKey line 378) in
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
> >
> > Is this done by some specific application, or if not what was the original motivation
> > for the patches? From what I can tell this was not in the emails you linked.
> > Btw, I think it would be a good idea to include this kind of info when you submit the patches.
> 
> The original try of the emails (I think towards the end of May), had
> it.  There is a bug filed for it on bugzilla (search for IMVU).  Some
> applications (IMVU instant messenger, for one) do use current user by
> default, and some installers ask where you want start menu entries and
> application settings stored, all users, or current user, where all
> users as far as the registry is concerned would be HKLM..  It was
> brought up in private after I sent the linked emails, that I should
> include that info in every try, so I will do so in the future.
> 
> As for the currentversion key not being there in your xp install, it
> may be just because it's a plain xp install.  I use XP on a daily
> basis and frequently access the registry, and I've never noticed a
> time when it was not there with something under it, although I never
> checked immediately after a clean install.

Well in that case, my recommendation would be to include the bug # in
your patch email with each try, and just to submit one patch with the
proper spacing. And if you still don't see it committed, I would try to
get in touch with Alexandre and see if he has specific comments.

As far as I can tell, there aren't any unit/conformance tests for the
uninstaller program (or even anything in the programs folder period???)
so I wouldn't think that should hold up its adoption...

Misha



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