Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
all first to reinstall it 8 ) ) > > -- > >From: Graham Percival >Sent: Sun 20/12/2009 20:26 >To: aliteralmind >Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on

RE: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread James Lowe
From: Graham Percival Sent: Sun 20/12/2009 20:26 To: aliteralmind Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows Are you sure? This problem was fixed recently; numerous people reported that it worked well, and nobody said that it didn't work. What versio

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread Graham Percival
n). Just to delete files??? > > > > Intolerably slow. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Very-very-slow-Lilypond-uninstall-on-Windows-tp26273107p26866939.html > Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. &

RE: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread James Lowe
er@gnu.org Subject: Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows Windows 7, Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 3GB ram. Fifteen-plus minutes to uninstall LilyPond (just upgraded to latest version, from previously-latest version). Just to delete files??? Intolerably slow. -- View this message in cont

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
to delete files??? > > Intolerably slow. > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Very-very-slow-Lilypond-uninstall-on-Windows-tp26273107p26866939.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-12-20 Thread aliteralmind
Windows 7, Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 3GB ram. Fifteen-plus minutes to uninstall LilyPond (just upgraded to latest version, from previously-latest version). Just to delete files??? Intolerably slow. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Very-very-slow-Lilypond-uninstall-on-Windows

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 10-11-2009 om 01:45 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Patrick McCarty: > On 2009-11-10, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Op dinsdag 10-11-2009 om 00:51 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Patrick > > McCarty: > > > On 2009-11-09, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Nick Payn

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-10 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-11-10, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op dinsdag 10-11-2009 om 00:51 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Patrick > McCarty: > > On 2009-11-09, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Nick Payne > > > wrote: > > > > Patrick McCarty wrote: > > > I'm not sure what to do here. Bu

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op dinsdag 10-11-2009 om 00:51 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Patrick McCarty: > On 2009-11-09, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Nick Payne > > wrote: > > > Patrick McCarty wrote: > I'm not sure what to do here. But IWBN if db did not install any of > these invalid syml

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-10 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-11-09, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Nick Payne > wrote: > > Patrick McCarty wrote: > >> > >> I should have said "about half" of the files.  Most (if not all) of > >> the nonexistent files are supposed to be in the "\usr\docs\" > >> hierarchy.  The directory str

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > Patrick McCarty wrote: >> >> I should have said "about half" of the files.  Most (if not all) of >> the nonexistent files are supposed to be in the "\usr\docs\" >> hierarchy.  The directory structure exists, but the files aren't >> there. > > Yes

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Nick Payne
Patrick McCarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:14PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival wrote: Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a known list of

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Graham Percival > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:14PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote: >>> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival >>> > wrote: >>> >> Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:14PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival >> > wrote: >> >> Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a >> >> known list of files? >> >> Well, th

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:14PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival > > wrote: > >> Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a > >> known list of files? > > Well, there is a list of files in files.txt, but most of those files >

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival > wrote: >> Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a >> known list of files? > > Yes :-) Well, there is a list of files in files.txt, but most of those files don't ev

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > Maybe I misunderstand... windows takes 30 minutes to delete a > known list of files? Yes :-) > is the installer looking at some windows database to get the > filelist? Nope, the registry database isn't involved at all. > (I suppose that

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:55:41PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Graham Percival > wrote: > > Patches appreciated.  I don't have a clue why this happens. > > It's because LilyPond uses the NSIS scons-enabled "list all installed > files, and then only remove w

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > Patches appreciated.  I don't have a clue why this happens. It's because LilyPond uses the NSIS scons-enabled "list all installed files, and then only remove what's been installed" mode. It would be easier and quicker to have an non-logged

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
Patches appreciated. I don't have a clue why this happens. Cheers, - Graham On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:39:31PM +, David Bobroff wrote: > I've noticed a similar difference between Linux and Windows uninstall > times. My Windows machine is a few years old; 3GHz Pentium with 2Gb RAM > and

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Nick Payne wrote: > When I install a new version I uninstall the previous one. I have noticed, > for quite a few versions now, that the uninstall takes a long time. I just > downloaded 2.13.7 and am waiting for the uninstall of 2.13.4 to complete. It > has been run

Re: Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread David Bobroff
I've noticed a similar difference between Linux and Windows uninstall times. My Windows machine is a few years old; 3GHz Pentium with 2Gb RAM and the Linux box is a much older machine; 733MHz with maybe 768Mb RAM. The uninstall on the much slower Linux hardware is a few seconds, while on the

Very very slow Lilypond uninstall on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Nick Payne
When I install a new version I uninstall the previous one. I have noticed, for quite a few versions now, that the uninstall takes a long time. I just downloaded 2.13.7 and am waiting for the uninstall of 2.13.4 to complete. It has been running for about 32 minutes so far and the uninstall progr