Casks which lack uninstall stanza

[rolandwalker]

Following up on #2151, here is a list of remaining pkg-based Casks which use install but not uninstall.

From the end-user's point-of-view, this means that brew cask uninstall does not work as expected. Furthermore, it is a silent failure.

• obsidian-menu-bar-mountain-lion.rb obsidian-menu-bar.rb solved by moving to boneyard
• paragon-extfs.rb
• paragon-ntfs.rb
• zooom.rb
• aquaterm.rb
• chronoagent.rb
• chronosync.rb
• cups-pdf.rb
• dnscrypt.rb
• eagle.rb
• fpc.rb
• garmin-training-center.rb
• growlnotify.rb
• haskell-platform.rb
• iphone-configuration-utility.rb
• jawbone-updater.rb
• lastpass-universal.rb
• lazarus.rb
• logitech-unifying.rb
• macports.rb
• nmap.rb
• pagico.rb
• pandoc.rb
• parallels.rb
• screens-connect.rb
• send-to-kindle.rb
• silverlight.rb
• smoothmouse.rb
• steermouse.rb
• the-archive-browser.rb
• totalspaces.rb
• truecrypt.rb
• tvmobili.rb
• usb-overdrive.rb
• xmarks-safari.rb
• yubikey-personalization-gui.rb

[alebcay]

the-archive-browser.rb uses link and does not install any packages.

[rolandwalker]

thanks. one more down!

[kevinSuttle]

Truth. Let's add xScope, shortcat, path-finder, reflector, sourcetree, webstorm, xscope_, openemu_,

OpenEmu and xScope actually have errors:

[alebcay]

On a lighter note, what themes/styling are you using on your Terminal and how'd you get a screenshot like that?

[nanoxd]

@alebcay https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure

[kevinSuttle]

Yep, @sindresorhus' pure-zsh theme. I just used the standard CMD-SHIFT-4 and drag the screenshot into the comment area.
Font is Fira Mono 16pt
Color scheme is Dracula for iTerm

Aside, I'm noticing that my uninstall stanza for xmarks-safari works, but says that it doesn't.

❯ brew cask uninstall xmarks-safari
==> Running uninstall process for xmarks-safari; your password may be necessary
==> sudo: /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/xmarks-safari/2.0.13/Uninstall Xmarks.app: command not found

The cask is removed from my system, but that error makes me thing I'm doing it wrong.

"/usr/local/Library/Taps/phinze-cask/Casks/xmarks-safari.rb" 9L, 336C
class XmarksSafari < Cask
    url 'https://static.xmarks.com/clients/safari/xmarks_for_safari_2.0.13.dmg'
    homepage 'http://www.xmarks.com/'
    version '2.0.13'
    sha1 '7c50605de34b27b426f24b2ff264654aaa3d5175'
    install 'Xmarks for Safari Installer.pkg'
    uninstall :script => { :executable => 'Uninstall Xmarks.app', :input => %w[Yes] }
end

[sigito]

Same issue with send-to-kindle.rb as @kevinSuttle has. This app shipped with uninstaller /Applications/Send to Kindle/Uninstall Send to Kindle.app, but unfortunately I cannot find way to call it from uninstall stanza.
For screens-connect.rt – /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/screens-connect/latest/Uninstall Screens Connect.app

[rolandwalker]

Yes, an .app bundle is intended for user interaction via the GUI -- it is not a CLI executable, though one or more Mach-O executables are inside a bundle.

Sometimes a shell script or decompilable AppleScript is inside an app bundle, and we can adapt that for the uninstaller. For send-to-kindle.rb that should not be needed -- we ought to be able to use a :pkgutil directive.

[alebcay]

I'd say I've gone as far as I can for now. zooom has upstream-based installation issues per #4802, obsidian-menu-bar is in a similar state per #2750, and somebody else will probably need to take a look at paragon-ntfs and paragon-extfs, as they're a bit too complex for me to figure out (too much stuff happening in those).

[rolandwalker]

@alebcay you did great work here, much appreciated by me.

obsidian-menu-bar is a beast; I don't know if ever installed reliably.

If I can work out something for the paragon Casks, and then maybe hack the others to be caskroom_only, we can institute an audit test requiring that install have a matching uninstall.

[alebcay]

Just a follow up on obsidian-menu-bar: I installed a Cask and took a look at the package contents - looked like about 10 or so different package IDs. After placing them all in an uninstall script and executing it, I couldn't open any new windows (they would all crash). I ended up going to the manufacturer website and downloading the uninstall stuff to manually uninstall the packages.

Perhaps in a future Cask release, consider adding uninstall :pkg that installs a pkg during uninstallation - I've seen a couple of other Casks that use this type of uninstallation. Perhaps a less ambiguous name as uninstall :pkg should be chosen.

[vitorgalvao]

I’ve gotten the paragon uninstalls working, but there’s a small caveat (second paragraph). They share a :launchctl ID, so I’m not sure what we should do with it. I’m for including it in the cask (meaning it should be removed from the system), but I can certainly see sense in the opposite point.