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Bug introduced in V10.1 or earlier and persisting through V11.3

[CASE:3362265]

This evaluates fine for me:

CDFDeploy["test.cdf"
, DynamicModule[{}, Dynamic["Hello World"], Deinitialization :> 1]
]

But this results in a never ending evaluation that can not be aborted and requires you to quit Mathematica (not just the kernel) 

CDFDeploy["test.cdf"
, DynamicModule[{}, Dynamic[{"Hello World"}], Deinitialization :> 1]
]

In practice any non trivial DynamicModule with Deinitialization can not be deployed as CDF...

Can you reproduce this? What can we do about this?

I have tried this in Mathematica 10.1 and 10.2 for Windows.

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    $\begingroup$ I am on MMA 10.2 (Win7). I can confirm that the first expression works fine, while the second one runs forever. The kernel reports "INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: Kernels|c|6973" in the message window upon execution. This has to do with the Deinitialization option though, and not with the curly braces: without Deinitialization, either form works fine, with or without the braces. In the aftermath, quitting the kernel seems sufficient to recover on my system; the front end seems unaffected thereafter. This sure looks like a bug. $\endgroup$ – MarcoB Jul 29 '15 at 21:13
  • $\begingroup$ Update from WRI: "[...] The developer will try to fix the issue but there's no timeframe on when it'll be resolved unfortunately. [...]" $\endgroup$ – Kuba♦ Jun 7 '18 at 10:38
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Since it is already 3 years and counting it would be nice to have a workaround.

Don't have a perfect one but you can Export as .cdf which will be fine as long as you don't need CDFDeploy's options: "Target"/Deployed which are not respected by Export[..., "CDF", ...]:

Export[
  "test.cdf"
, DynamicModule[{}, Dynamic[{"Hello World"}], Deinitialization :> 1]
, "CDF"
]

Another workaround is to use wrap your DynamicModule with a notebook with: 

NotebookEventActions :> {"WindowClose" :> deinitialization}

The downside is it will not have access to DynamicModule's variables (or it will require case specific tweaks). Additionaly "WindowClose" probably is not as general as Deinitialization. But I didn't test this method too much.

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