Re: distutils user questions

2006-01-19 Thread boxy440
Anyone? Can setup.py uninstall a package or module that it installed? I've read the installing modules doc: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/inst/inst.html but I didn't see anything about uninstalling what was installed by using setup.py. I also checked the wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistUt

Re: Using CGI to interface with an XML-RPC server

2006-01-18 Thread boxy440
Rob, your python cgi script is just like any other script -- simply import the xmlrpc lib and use it. The client accessing your cgi script will have to wait while your script goes off acting as an xml-rpc client doing whatever business it has to do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

distutils user questions

2006-01-18 Thread boxy440
Hi, When I want to install a package in 2 steps, first building in a separate build dir (say, --build-base=~/temp/build_foo), then installing in my own packages directory (usually, --home=~/opt), for the install phase, how does setup.py know I've already run the build? That is, when I tell setup.p