Support uninstallation of latest preview versions

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A guided tool will be provided to enable the controlled clean up of a system such that only the desired versions of the Runtime and SDKs remain.

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Support uninstallation of latest preview versions #265

Open pjcollins opened 11 months ago

pjcollins commented 11 months ago

We have some scenarios where it could be useful to uninstall .NET previews from the latest band (currently 8.0) as we move from preview to preview, however this does not appear to be supported:

./dotnet-core-uninstall list  

.NET Core SDKs:
  8.0.100-preview.7.23376.3  (arm64)  [Cannot uninstall version 8.0.0 and above]

I am trying to better understand this restriction. Is this not allowed because the latest SDK can have a lot of churn in between previews and the behavior of the tool may be unreliable?

Would be reasonable to add a command line param that would let users ignore this upper limit? https://github.com/dotnet/cli-lab/blob/0eab6c3a145e91f1ce16043ec63d9dfe2ac702ea/src/dotnet-core-uninstall/Shared/VSVersioning/VisualStudioSafeVersionsExtractor.cs#L16

baronfel commented 11 months ago

A parameter to ignore the 'safe' limits might be interesting - really we have a roughly-yearly process of bumping this allowed upper limit ourselves. @joeloff might be time to do so again for 8.0?

ef4203 commented 10 months ago

Quick comment that this issue still persists for the latest release

jeroenhabets commented 9 months ago

Found this issue after getting an error while trying to uninstall .Net 8 RC 1 (8.0.100-rc.1.23463.5) after the RC2 release.

mauroservienti commented 9 months ago

It would be good to add support for .NET 8 previews. My machines start to get polluted by preview bits.

pjcollins commented 9 months ago

I think this should be fixed for .NET 8 with https://github.com/dotnet/cli-lab/pull/268.

I also took an initial stab at allowing the upper version to be ignored for future versions in https://github.com/dotnet/cli-lab/pull/269, though this still needs some tests.

dennisrahmen commented 7 months ago

Any updates on .NET 8 support?

jeroenhabets commented 5 months ago

Apologies, to nag but... Any updates on .NET 8 support?

What's holding this back? Can we help?

jrdodds commented 4 months ago