[development] D6 Cleaning up on module uninstall

[nan wich]

Jeff, as soon as I saw this I started thinking about a content removal add-on 
for the Util package, using the Batch API. Also, I understand that D7 has fixed 
this but pre-D7, blocks never went away either (unless, like me, the devloper 
explicitly did it).
 
Nancy
 
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From: "jeff at ayendesigns.com" <jeff at ayendesigns.com>
To: development at drupal.org
Sent: Wed, January 26, 2011 7:31:41 PM
Subject: Re: [development] D6 Cleaning up on module uninstall

Good points from you and everyone else. On a tangent to this example, I think 
about the "completely uninstall" and "lose all data" messages, and that 
apparently the accepted way of doing it leaves many footprints. Sort of like 
when I have Windows remove an app and yet there are files and registry entries 
left all over the place, though in that case I don't think its by design. I 
don't know if this is also the case in D7, but if so, it might be fodder for a 
Cleanup module that accepts registration of all a module's pieces and then 
offers the user a choice between a 'standard' uninstall and a truly full one.
> Hi,
> 
> You shouldn't remove the taxonomy on uninstall, as people may be using the 
>taxonomy you created for another purpose, and what you originally intended. Just 
>on the uninstall let the user know that they should be deleted.
> 
> If your module defines the content type Drupal will handle the fact that the 
>definition is missing, and the admin can clean up all the nodes, and other 
>definitions.
> 
> Gordon.
> 
> 
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