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Re: uninstalling a jdk/jre

Your loyalty to Apple is admirable, but a quick search of the archive you recommend simply indicates the long-running demand for means of uninstalling a developer preview.  However, the search results returned are huge, and the server very unresponsive, so I admit I may have missed the point you are trying to make.  Perhaps you can link to the exact post?

Anyway, I'm not asking for an uninstaller - all I'm asking for is a quick page of notes which explain what to delete or modify to uninstall a DP to a condition which would then allow the current supported version to be installed back on top.  Surely this cannot be so complex?  

If you personally never have a need to uninstall, that's great - but others do.  As a search in the archives demonstrates.  Economics has nothing to do with it - it would probably take no more than an hour from someone on the Apple Java development team to provide some notes on what to do.  It would be perfectly acceptable for a DP if Apple didn't support the uninstall process - but at least it would provide some guidance to those that want to try.

Paul




On Jan 22, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Greg Guerin wrote:

Paul Howland wrote:

... To simply say "it can't be uninstalled" really is not too helpful. ...

No one is saying that.  What they're saying is "You're on your own".
That's a very different thing, though the distinction may be
inconsequential to a non-technical user.  Thankfully, this list is
populated by developers, who are unlikely to qualify as non-technical users.

Before arguing this point further, please search the list archives for
"uninstall" and read the past arguments about Apple providing uninstallers,
of any form.  Really.  The postings on this subject go back several years,
and are quite easy to find by searching for "uninstall":

=10&fmt=long&wm=wrd&wf=2221&sp=1&ul=java-dev>

No one ever argues that Apple can't do an uninstaller (technically
impossible).  It always comes down to economics or similar tradeoffs.

  -- GG

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