Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Win32 NSIS: calling old Ethereal uninstaller (if existing) before installing new Ethe

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Hi List!

As other (Win32) installers will call an existing uninstallation program 
before installing themselves, I'm asking myself if this should be done 
by the Ethereal installer too.

This is used to uninstall things that are no longer handled by the 
current installer, making the installer much more "history independent" 
than today.

For example: if a former Ethereal installer would have uninstalled a 
file named dontneedme.txt, and the later installer simply overwrites 
things, it won't even install that file (and so it won't uninstall it 
either later), this file would be kept until doomsday.

Any thoughts about this?

Regards, ULFL