Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > Skip, > I agree. Some kind of a manifest or log file would be great and > probably not that hard to implement. > Nick
What's wrong with the "record" option of install: python setup.py install --record installed_files Then it's pretty easy to do: rm -rf `cat installed_files` Hmm, I guess that's easy on *nix. Maybe setup *should* support uninstall for consistant cross-platform behavior. -- George > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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
