On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:23:41 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are planning to propose a backport for previous versions ok >> Not neccessary - recursively delete the whole package directory or >> .egg file. > > No because you can have files installed anywhere That's true that they can be installed anywhere. But there always needs to be an entry in a .PTH file along the python path to specify where the files were installed to. > The way to handle de-installation is to use the recorded list of file > that can be created by the 'sdist' command at installation time > > It's the --record option and we want to put its output in "RECORD" in > the egg.info > > Now my point is : do we want to add the MANIFEST (source file list) > file as well. > Setuptools and pip are adding a SOURCES.txt file at this point. Well, you can certainly try that... But your logic fails in this case.... - you installed a package on a system in 1998... - that system didn't generate all of the manifest info that was just invented now. (2009) - therefore... the code you run now cannot deinstall that old package. Obviously.. there's ways around it... They're just my observations... David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
