Uninstall deletes user created folders too

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 20:03:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-01-09 18:58, Brad Anderson wrote:
>
>> That's what needs to be done. NSIS doesn't make doing things 
>> like this
>> easy because the scripting language is very...barebones. There 
>> are
>> readymade solutions for installers that use the regular 
>> packaging of
>> installed files but we download a zip and install the contents 
>> of that
>> so we'd need to create something ourselves (or adapt one of the
>> readymade solutions to work with what we do).
>
> Why do you need to download the zip, just include the files you 
> need like a regular installer.

The decision to do that predates my interest in D so I'm not sure 
why the installer does that. It supports just embedding the zip 
but that's never been used to my knowledge. Even better would be 
to use NSIS's own archiving (which supports LZMA).