[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-2458) JBDS uninstaller doesn't actually remove JBDS

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBDS-2458:
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Honestly... not very useful. But if a user hand-tooled his jbdevstudio.ini file, there might be information in there he wants to retain to copy into a new installation. 

Not 100% sure what's in configuration that's useful for the "I just uninstalled everything but want to reinstall" usecase. I've been known to use an existing Eclipse installation as the update site from which to install a new one, however. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3346333/exporting-installed-plugins-from-eclipse-to-another
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11438529/easy-way-to-copy-old-plugins-into-new-install-of-eclipse

For the JBDS case, we can tell users that they can *attempt* to install plugins in an older JBDS to a newer JBDS like this:

* _File
** Import...
*** Install > From Existing Installation
**** Browse for ~/jbdevstudio_old/studio/ folder
***** Select features to install

(It's an *attempt* because there are no guarantees that a feature that you installed in JBDS 5 2 years ago will work in JBDS 7, because of the underlying changes to Eclipse in the intervening years.)

                
> JBDS uninstaller doesn't actually remove JBDS
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-2458
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2458
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: installer, Upstream
>    Affects Versions: 6.0.0.GA
>         Environment: Fedora 17
>            Reporter: Michelle Murray
>            Assignee: Michelle Murray
>             Fix For: 7.0.0.Beta1
>
>
> The uninstaller has two options:
> 1. force deletion of installation folder (select check box)
> 2 don't force the deletion of the installation folder (don't select check box)
> I would expect option 1 to delete the whole installation folder including any files I might have added in there. It does. :)
> I would expect option 2 to delete anything to do with JBDS but leave the folder and any files I have created in it. It doesn't. It leaves a studio folder full of JBDS files and a shortcut by which I can still launch what appears to be a working JBDS. As a user I would assume that the uninstaller would remove JBDS at the very least and I shouldn't still be able to launch it. :(

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