Bugs item #1580058, was opened at 2006-10-19 06:04 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by pabs3 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757416&aid=1580058&group_id=144022
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Binary Installation Group: Latest release (0.61.05) >Status: Closed >Resolution: Out of Date Priority: 8 Private: No Submitted By: garthz (garthz) Assigned to: Robert B. Quattlebaum, Jr. (darco) Summary: difficult uninstall for Mac OS X binary package Initial Comment: Despite the "developers release" tag I decided to take a quick look. It's a complicated package, and I didn't want to spend hours building, so I installed the 0.61.04 OS X binary package. It didn't work on either my Mac OS 10.3.9 or my 10.4.7 systems at all, which is fine, but I was dismayed to discover how difficult it will be to un-install; it scatters files all over /usr/local, and with file creation times from the packaging date, not the install date. Compared to Mac OS X and modern Linux distribution standards, this is quite unfriendly, and liable to cause future build problems, given how many of the files are varying versions of libraries which may already be installed for Darwinports or Fink. If you're going to offer a .mkpg, I really wish you would follow the conventional practice and either put all the libraries in the application bundle or in a separate folder in /opt or /usr/local. Alternatively, provide an uninstaller. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Paul Wise (pabs3) Date: 2007-03-23 12:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=35028 Originator: NO Closing since the MacOS packages have been pulled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2007-03-10 20:17 Message: Logged In: NO The installer infected the whole machine and made it impossible to build any other command line packages. After tedious and difficult cleaning I found that the string "darco/project" from Synfig had crept into 224(!) different files in the system. An efficient virus... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2006-11-19 08:05 Message: Logged In: NO Hi, I installed it but it doesn't work. So how do I uninstall all the files? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Robert B. Quattlebaum, Jr. (darco) Date: 2006-11-18 08:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=206661 Originator: NO You are right, it is a mess, so I'm taking the package offline for now. There was an uninstall shell script, but I don't know if it is working properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757416&aid=1580058&group_id=144022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
