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).

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index edeced08762541aa5b3358cf8aa69202c7cf91ae..73441960c88ea593f9206ffc0ab3945f472d7ea2 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ Library
 
 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).
+
 - The installer now installs Start menu shortcuts under (the local
   equivalent of) "All Users" when doing an Admin install.
 

diff --git a/PCbuild/python20.wse b/PCbuild/python20.wse
index 3b477e2688cf1b097bcd61b542d165fb3c056906..dcb7180c7e19af4d1fb6eaf07a144f35163ae9b5 100644 (file)
--- a/PCbuild/python20.wse
+++ b/PCbuild/python20.wse
@@ -2862,7 +2862,16 @@ 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