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Re: Feature Request

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-01-23 17:18:27 CET

Simon Large wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Nick Robson wrote:
>>> Hi, could you please add a alter the uninstall program so that will
>>> remove the SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK environment variable when tortoise is
>>> removed, this has caused much confusion after VS.net was booted but I
>>> could not return to using *.svn* instead of *_svn* folder names.
>>> Thanks and keep up the good work.
>>
>> MSI doesn't remove such an env variable. And I think for good reason:
>> it can't know for sure that other programs will need that variable too.
>
> For example the command line client uses the same variable. If someone
> already has the CLI installed and set up to use _svn, an install and
> uninstall of TSVN would break it.
>
> But why do you want this on uninstall. It sounds like you plan to keep
> using TSVN.
>
> Stefan, how about adding a checkbox to the settings dialog to make it
> easier to create/delete the env variable? I know it would need a reboot
> to take effect, but that is easier than trying to remember the name of
> the variable that needs to be created manually.

You don't need to *create* the variable manually, the installer takes
care of that if you enable it.
And to remove it, I guess the name of the variable should be enough for
every user to recognize it for what it is.

Stefan

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