Re: distutils user questions

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Kern
boxy440 wrote: > Anyone? Can setup.py uninstall a package or module > that it installed? No. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

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