[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Éric Araujo added the comment: distutils2/packaging now provides a remove function and a pysetup remove command. -- dependencies: -distutils removing old files, deleting unneeded old files from installed location. resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> cl

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- dependencies: +distutils removing old files, deleting unneeded old files from installed location. ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- versions: +3rd party -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Éric Araujo added the comment: Status update: Josip implemented PEP 376 to provide the installation database and Alexis is working on distutils2.install_tools to provide an uninstall function. User-level tools like pip can reuse this code to provide an uninstall functionality. -- nos

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- components: +Distutils2 -Distutils keywords: +gsoc versions: +Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker __

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

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[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: I will continue to discuss this in distutils-SIG: Marc-André Lemburg proposed me to introduce the uninstall command from mxSetup.py (from mxBase, http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/) So I need to ask for opinions first -- assignee: -> tarek _

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Andy Buckley added the comment: If an uninstall registry is feasible, the it could be neat. The suggested behaviour of unlinking known files based on the source directory is not all that inconvenient: it's by no means perfect, but it has its uses and is familiar to many, since it is how GNU auto

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: philobyte, this means you have to keep the source somewhere to be able to run setup.py uninstall. This is not handy imho. What about a uninstall registery in Python that keeps track of the files installed for each package ? this would let us have an uninstall comm

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

philobyte added the comment: python setup.py uninstall should do all the same processing as 'install' but whenever it gets to the point of copying a file to a system destination, it should instead unlink the destination. besides the obvious use, here is another one: when upgrading a package

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: This would require a detailed description on how such a feature would work. -- nosy: +tarek ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command

New submission from Andy Buckley : It would make package maintenance easier, as well as integration with other build systems e.g. autotools (necessary for projects where not everything is Python), if the distutils supported an uninstallation command, e.g. python setup.py uninstall This would pr