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Feature request #17: REQUEST: Specify files to remove using bundle identifiers, creator codes or partial paths

Kind feature request
Product Install
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter Greg Hurrell
Tags no tags

Description

When determining which files should be removed during an uninstall or upgrade, Install currently depends on hard-coded file paths.

This works well for items which have to be installed in the same location (like PreferencePanes etc) but will not work well in situations where the user can choose the location to keep the item.

To work around this limitation, the proposal is that more ways of specifying items on disk be provided:

1. Hard-coded paths (ie. the existing set up) 2. Bundle identifiers (eg. com.apple.iTunes etc) 3. Creator codes 4. Partial paths (eg. "MyAppFolder/Documentation/Folder")

The goal is to add these ways without breaking existing configuration files.

Bug #16 depends on this bug.

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Marking as ASSIGNED.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    I think that ways 1, 2 and 4 are the most important ones, but other ones to bear in mind include:

    5. Searching by type code 6. Searching by version number 7. Searching by modification date 8. Searching by creation date 9. Asking user to specify (using a file dialog)

    With all these criteria, I need to find a simple mechanism of indicating with the criteria should be ANDed or ORed together.

  3. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

    https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

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