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 6411be870fc09eb047d71490dcead53a9bfd677a..ee089d3197867ea75d1af97aa62cb7b25be8159d 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ C API
 
 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).
+
 
 What's New in Python 2.2.1 final?
 Release date: 10-Apr-2002

diff --git a/PCbuild/python20.wse b/PCbuild/python20.wse
index 5f875d3f5c9484e753d39bb18dfe0e0a4a205972..e4165e89ee23d37e0a48c93847ab2c2ed8ed38a8 100644 (file)
--- a/PCbuild/python20.wse
+++ b/PCbuild/python20.wse
@@ -2869,7 +2869,16 @@ 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