[wp-hackers] Uninstall Handling

[Andrew Nacin]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Ryan Bilesky <rbilesky at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I do is at the bottom of my options page for my plugins I have a
> check box, labeled 'Uninstall on Deactivation'.  When the user clicks
> that and saves the options that sets an uninstall flag in my plugin
> options.  When the user deactivates the plugin I have a deactivation
> hook that runs, that will check for that uninstall flag and if set
> will then proceed to delete all the options and stuff associated with
> my plugin.  I don't personally include any code to delete my plugin
> files, thats simple enough for them to do from the plugin manager.


I really don't understand that approach at all. You're adding an unnecessary
and inconsistent UI option rather than leveraging the consistent uninstall
process that WordPress provides plugin authors.