On Jan 11, 2006, at 1:34 AM, goran at krampe.se wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Timothy Reaves <treaves at silverfieldstech.com> wrote:
>> 	I was going to uninstall RB, to see if that changed things again,
>> but that does not seem to be an option... (ya, let's let them INSTALL
>> software, but don't give them the option of UNINSTALLING it, ya!))
>
> Which reminds me - I should add "uninstall" support in SM for .mcz's -
> but the reason for this not being available *in general* is because an
> install of say a .cs actually *runs code* (postscript, preamble) which
> typically has side effects (otherwise there would be little point with
> them) and those side effects are of course "impossible" to revert.
>
> And of course we have the class initialization problem - but I  
> assume MC
> simply assumes that MC packages don't do "bad things" in their class
> initializers.
>
> regards, Göran
>

	Does deinitialize get run when a class unloads?  If not, something  
like that should be done.  In that code the class would be  
responsible for undoing anything that might break if the class was  
unloaded.