Python 2.2 unwise.exe

[Bengt Richter]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:34:42 -0400, Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:

>> 1. Boot the box.
>>
>> 2. Install 2.2.1.
>>
>> 3. Uninstall 2.2.1.
>
>[Bengt Richter]
>> What happens if you shut down and boot here?
>
>Nothing visible.  The entire \Python22 directory is gone (including
>WISE.EXE) immediately after completing step 3.  After a reboot, it's still
>gone <wink>.
>
Sure. But the point was to see if the deferred delete got flushed so that
reinstalling could succeed without thereafter still having a deferred
delete to get hammered with on the next reboot after that.

>> (I'm wondering if there's a deferred delete waiting for a reboot
>> which doesn't get cleared by the re-install at 4.)
>
>Of course.  But since the only relevant file in use at the time UNWISE.EXE
>is running *is* UNWISE.EXE, and Wise already got rid of it, it appears to be
>a Wise bug that it arranges to delete, at the next reboot, any file named
>\Python22\WISE.EXE the user happens to create after Wise already got rid of
>the original.
>
This is the delete which I wanted to see if it got flushed with the otherwise
unnecessary reboot at 3a.

If so, you could just specify reboot after uninstall before the next install as a fix,
I would think.

Regards,
Bengt Richter