Problems with Win32/WinCE VMs - backing out of changes

Steve Wart swart at home.com
Wed Sep 1 13:23:19 UTC 1999


I think this is a serious problem that deserves a higher standard of
reference than the unacceptable situation imposed by Windows.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Smet [mailto:peter.smet at flinders.edu.au]
> Sent: September 1, 1999 1:01 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Problems with Win32/WinCE VMs - backing out of changes
>
>
>
> From: Dick Karpinski <dick at cfcl.com>
>
> >A second mystery to me is why Filein operations are irreversable.  What's
> >the problem?  I know how to write the reversing instructions
> when I do the
> >damage in other systems.  Why do people put up with being unable to
> retreat?
>
>
> Ever tried a clean uninstall of just about anything on Windows? 90% of the
> time
> I find the uninstallers require manual help ie:
>
> "some files could not be removed"
>
> So, you could force developers to write uninstall code, as occurs for
> Windows, but
> this doesn't seem to be terribly successful.
>
> Peter
>
>





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