Ticket #8 (assigned defect)

Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

The "size" shown in the "Add/Remove Program" list does not change

Reported by: brian Assigned to: brian (accepted)
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: Installer Version: 0.22.6
Severity: Keywords: installer uninstaller
Cc:

Description

If the new "Change" option is used to change the Nihongo parser for an existing installation the program size estimate shown in the "Add/Remove Programs" list does not change. For example, if POPFile was installed with only the internal parser selected and the "Change" button is used to install the MeCab? package (around 40 MB) the size value shown does not change!

Change History

10/15/07 21:39:48 changed by brian

  • status changed from new to assigned.

The installer does not store the program size shown in the "Add/Remove Programs" list; Windows calculates (estimates?) the size, based upon the location data provided by the installer.

The reason the size data does not get updated may be because the "Add/Remove Programs" list does not get automatically refreshed after the "Change" program has finished. If the "Add/Remove Programs" window is closed and then re-opened a more accurate size value might be displayed.

Automatic refresh of the "Add/Remove Programs" list has always been a problem with NSIS-based installers. The main reason is the default behaviour of the uninstaller. Some workarounds have been suggested over the years but as far as I know there is no easy solution that works on all flavours of Windows (e.g. one recommended solution only works on "English" versions of Windows).

This is considered to be a cosmetic problem so it has not been near the top of my "To Do" list. Perhaps it is time to do some more research in the NSIS Support forum?