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On Slack, I asked about
the following error I got, when I tried to uninstall the
DITA-OT LwDITA plugin, as shipped with the released
distribution:
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C:\[...]dita-ot-3.7.2>bin\dita
uninstall org.lwdita
Error:
Unable to delete file
C:\Users\frwe\Local\Development\dita-ot\dita-ot-3.7.2\plugins\org.lwdita\lib\autolink-0.6.0.jar
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Radu Coravu answered the following:
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about the âUnable to deleteâ problem, I get the same thing
on Windows. Maybe you can add a new issue for it on the DITA
OT GitHub. You can manually delete the folder
âplugins\org.lwditaâ and then run âdita -installâ.
@jelovirtÂWhat happens is that the
âditaâ process has a class loader which loads all the JAR
libraries from plugins, and on Windows when a JAR library
is locked by a plugin it cannot be deleted. So basically
this means no plugin which has JAR libraries can be
elegantly uninstalled on Windows using the âditaâ command.
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I can confirm that the
procedure of removing the plugin from the file system and
then let DITA-OT rescan the plugin inventory by using âdita
installâ does indeed work. From Raduâs answer I guess that
this odd behavior might be limited to Windows and is not
relevant on proper operating systems. But it might be worth
checking it out.
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Frank
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