Re: understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-07 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 22:31:04 +0200, c.bu...@posteo.jp writes: >On 2015-07-06 18:34 Ben Finney wrote: >> Part of the better system is that we have the Python Packaging >> Authority http://pypa.io/> which didn't exist when Distutils was >> designed. Read the documents there and I hope y

Re: understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-07 Thread c.buhtz
On 2015-07-06 18:34 Ben Finney wrote: > Part of the better system is that we have the Python Packaging > Authority http://pypa.io/> which didn't exist when Distutils was > designed. Read the documents there and I hope you'll be glad at the > improvement! > ... Thank you very much for that explana

Re: understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-06 Thread Ben Finney
writes: > I want to understand the design concept behind it. > Why isn't there no uninstall routine implemented? What form of answer are you looking for? Will you be disappointed if the answer entails (as I fear it must) “because no-one put in the sustained effort to make it work”? If you mere

Re: understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/07/2015 10:04, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: This question is not technical. I know that there is no 'uninstall' Option in a setup.py. I know this discussions and workarounds for that problem, too. I want to understand the d

Re: understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-06 Thread Chris Warrick
On 5 July 2015 at 11:04, wrote: > This question is not technical. > I know that there is no 'uninstall' Option in a setup.py. > I know this discussions and workarounds for that problem, too. > > > I want to understand the desi

Re: understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-06 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 7:04 PM, wrote: > This question is not technical. > I know that there is no 'uninstall' Option in a setup.py. > I know this discussions and workarounds for that problem, too. > > > I want to understand t

understanding why there is no setup.py uninstall

2015-07-06 Thread c.buhtz
This question is not technical. I know that there is no 'uninstall' Option in a setup.py. I know this discussions and workarounds for that problem, too. I want to understand the design concept behind it. Why isn't there no uni