This is all perfectly correct. 

Csound installs no files elsewhere than in its own installation directory. The installer sets a few environment variables and creates a startup menu, and these are more or less removed on uninstallation along with the whole installation directory.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Art Hunkins 
>Sent: Sep 23, 2008 4:27 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Version 5.09 released
>
>I'll let Michael handle this in depth, but this is my understanding of the 
>installer:
>
>1) if you want Python, it handles Python/Csound interfacing for you:
>2) it installs the necessary compatible environment variables.
>
>Assuming one doesn't want Python, there is nonetheless the issue of getting 
>the environment variables set right. You either must set them globally, or 
>locally (through running a batch file). Or, if you place everything you need 
>in a *single* directory and run from there, and have *no* global settings, 
>Csound will also run.
>
>With a full, normal setup, however, setting the environment is crucial - 
>especially setting OPCODEDIR.
>
>For beginning users, getting the environment right is one of the major 
>issues, creating major frustration. For them, the installer is a godsend.
>
>OTOH, uninstalling is simple; it just erases the Csound directories and the 
>environment variables. AFAIK, there is no adding of files elsewhere. I, for 
>one, am happy that Csound does not create havoc with the rest of my system. 
>It's basically self-contained (or *can* be).
>
>Art Hunkins
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Panos Katergiathis" 
>To: 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:54 PM
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Version 5.09 released
>
>
>> Art Hunkins wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wide open to ideas/feedback (and will do *nothing* without 
>>> substantial encouragement).
>>
>> Measured in hundreds of begging e-mail messages ? :)
>>
>> Seriously, i may be wrong but your question can be reversed: what is the 
>> point in providing an installer? What purpose does it serve?
>>
>> Windows users (myself included) always think of "installed" software, as 
>> software that has installed hundreds of dll files, in hundreds of possible 
>> locations, accompanied by hundreds of registry entries. Therefore, as 
>> software that can not be un-installed.
>>
>> Perhaps, Csound does not follow the rule.. perhaps uninstalling it only 
>> means that one can delete the related directory, and that is it?
>>
>> Do as you will (i would think that it wouldn't be too difficult to provide 
>> that zip file). Also, someone please remove that "Beta" indicator, or 
>> provide some explanation on its purpose (it only appears on Windows, not 
>> Mac nor Linux).
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Panos
>>
>>
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