Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:47:26 -0600
> Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>, 
>       "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>, Emacs developers 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > > So, side-by-side installation will work but it's not by design and while
> > > the installer supports it, the uninstaller will not respect it.
> >
> > Then the uninstaller needs to be fixed.
> 
> Should the uninstaller detect when several versions are present in the
> installation path and then prompt the user to select which ones to
> remove?   I assume we would then make removing the installation folder
> conditional on the user selected "Remove all versions" or something to
> this effect.

Ideally, the uninstaller should only remove the files that the
installer installed, it should not remove entire directories if those
directories include files not installed by the installer.

"Remove all version" should be a separate feature, IMO.