dita-lightweight-dita — archive

[Frank Wegmann]

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: C:[...]dita-ot-3.7.2>bindita uninstall org.lwdita Error: Unable to delete file C:UsersfrweLocalDevelopmentdita-otdita-ot-3.7.2pluginsorg.lwditalibautolink-0.6.0.jar Radu Coravu answered the following: Only about the “Unable to delete” 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 “pluginsorg.lwdita” and then run “dita -install”. @jelovirt  What happens is that the “dita” 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 “dita” command. 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 “dita install” does indeed work. From Radu’s 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. Frank Software AG – Sitz/Registered office: Uhlandstraße 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany – Registergericht/Commercial register: Darmstadt HRB 1562 - Vorstand/Management Board: Sanjay Brahmawar (Vorsitzender/Chairman), Dr. Elke Frank, Dr. Matthias Heiden, Dr. Stefan Sigg - Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Christian Lucas - http://www.softwareag.com