Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: [Vinay] > I think you mean "Only the paste/util directory is recorded." Obviously :)
> How about if you record all directories that you would create if they didn't > exist, as well > as those actually created? That way, you would record the paste directory > under both > distributions, but would only delete it when deleting the last distribution > which uses it This is what I proposed earlier: we’d need to record all directories that would have been created, but I’m not sure if it will be possible. For example, if one uses --prefix /tmp/usr and pysetup install creates /tmp/usr, /tmp/usr/lib, /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7, /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages, /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spam and /tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Spam-0.1.dist-info, then we pysetup should Spam, should packaging remove only the package and dist-info directories or also the site-packages, python2.7, lib and usr directories? [Carl] > In short - pip would _love_ to have directories recorded as well as files, > exactly as Vinay > has proposed. We don't have that info (even the distutils --record option > currently doesn't > record directories, thus installed-files.txt doesn't contain directories), so > we are reduced > to some nasty things like referring to top-level.txt in order to avoid lots > of empty > directories hanging about, Oh. Ouch. > which in itself was the subject of recent controversy re Twisted's custom > namespace > packages implementation. Ah, I understand that better now. Maybe now would be a good time to start an alpha pip-on-distutils2 branch, to see if the API we offer is good enough and to work out possible bugs in new features offered to pip by d2 (removing directories, installing setup.cfg-based projects, supporting bdists). > Please, let's have directories recorded in RECORD, Okay, so I will champion a patch to PEP 376. ---------- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12405> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
