Windows installer: disabled Wise's "delete in-use files" uninstall

option.  It was the cause of at least one way UNWISE.EXE could vanish
(install a python; uninstall it; install it again; reboot the machine;
abracadabra the uinstaller is gone).

Bugfix candidate, but I'll backport it myself.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a1f5f54155ce1e1fe176e252f644128c922713d9..35d72483a2477d14915a1adf30f2c0f44da9d312 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ Tests
 
 Windows
 
+- Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes.  One cause
+  of that has been fixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in-
+  use files" uninstall option).
+
 - Fixed a bug in urllib's proxy handling in Windows.  [SF bug #503031]
 
 - The installer now installs Start menu shortcuts under (the local

diff --git a/PCbuild/python20.wse b/PCbuild/python20.wse
index 230bce47f4c88381fa97432dc9d6a73d18d07ce3..400da4072773649fe8098960157de9986c009362 100644 (file)
--- a/PCbuild/python20.wse
+++ b/PCbuild/python20.wse
@@ -2865,7 +2865,16 @@ item: Self-Register OCXs/DLLs
 end
 item: Remark
 end
-item: Add Text to INSTALL.LOG
+remarked item: Remark
+  Text=Don't enable "Delete in-use files".  Here's what happens:
+end
+remarked item: Remark
+  Text=Install Python; uninstall Python; install Python again.  Reboot the machine.
+end
+remarked item: Remark
+  Text=Now UNWISE.EXE is missing.  I think this is a Wise bug, but so it goes.
+end
+remarked item: Add Text to INSTALL.LOG
   Text=Delete in-use files: On
 end
 item: Remark