On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:34:26 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > - install/uninstall script > > I think the best solution is not to provide an install script since > third-party tool do it. Furthermore, > there's already the simplest install script available today: you can > run "python setup.py install" on a given package > so it gets installed. > > So what about adding just a global uninstall feature, that > uninstalls the files installed for a package, using the record > file, and let the third party tool have better features.
Today I just was writing a package-deinstallation routine and doing small tests on the routine... :-) for my gui package manager. There are one or two issues here for you to think about... 1) - distutils already exists on the installed system - how can you install over it? 2) - The new distutils code won't be retrofitted to old systems. As far as I can see, it's just so much better to have a package uninstaller in a seperate gui tool. That can be installed over an existing installation. > - MANIFEST (SOURCES.txt) > > Ronald pointed out that it was not necessary to have a MANIFEST file > included if we are going to have a RECORD > file, as described in the PEP. > > The MANIFEST (which in a way is equivalent to SOURCES.txt pip or > easy_install adds) is the list of source files, > whereas the RECORD is the list if installed files (which might > include more elements in case of compilations) I have done some limited testing on deinstalling packages over the last week. The big problem with using a manifest of installed files is that the setup.py in distutils can generate more files than were originally in the source package. Doing a build... for instance... leaves .o or .obj files. The way to solve the problem is to recursively delete the whole package directory. That gets rid of everything. Intermediate files and all... > > What would be the interest of having the list of source files in > egg-info ? Not neccessary - recursively delete the whole package directory or .egg file. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig