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'Zip' helper functions should remove the installation folder, upon uninstallation #294

Open aronovgj opened 9 years ago

aronovgj commented 9 years ago

Should handle automatically creating and deleting folders where the installer is unzipped in and installed from.

aronovgj commented 9 years ago

also you might want to pass a regex to the function if the installer is called something like packageinstaller0.78.exe

pauby commented 9 months ago

If software creates some files in the installation folder, then a traditional installer will tend no to remove them or the folder they are in. This allows for reinstallation of the software and the old configuration can continue to be used.

I don't feel that the helper functions should take the decision to remove the installation folder unless the folder is empty.