Re: [development] D6 Cleaning up on module uninstall

[jeff]

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.