I'd second Skip's point. Now that setup.py does install, and it knows what to uninstall (because it copied the files in the first place) I think it's a good idea to have "setup.py uninstall" support. :)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Nick> Uninstall support is hard, you would turn distutils (setup.py) > Nick> into a package management system, but wait...! there are already > Nick> package managers that do exactly that (rpm, deb, Windows > Nick> Installer). > > Note that I don't really care about uninstall support, certainly not > enough > to go through the pain of editing distutils. I'd be happy if the > installer > wrote a MANIFEST file that tells me what files and directories it did > install. I'm not as worried about dependencies or overlaps between > packages > as much as making sure that when I want to get rid of package X I can > actually delete all of its files. I also realize that's not truly package > management in the rpm/deb sense, but that would be good enough for me. > > My message was simply pointing out that telling people "use RPM or DEB" is > not really acceptable. Not everyone uses Linux. Or Windows. Or Macs. > Python is a cross-platform language. Through distutils it includes a > basic > cross-platform installation facility. It probably ought to also have a > corresponding basic cross-platform uninstall facility. > > Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
