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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Win32 installer option to uninstall previous version broken?

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:24:45 -0700
Stephen Fisher wrote:
> I just downloaded the latest SVN build of Wireshark for Windows (26622) 
> and saw that it had the new option to uninstall old versions of 
> Wireshark.  I chose the option and to my surprise, it didn't do the 
> uninstall until after the new version installed.  It uninstalled the 
> version I just installed!  I've never touched the Win32 installer, so 
> could someone take a look at this? :)

The uninstaller was fooling NSIS' ExecWait function. This should be fixed in r26664.