On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: >> >> 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.
You don't specify in this pth file that the package "foo" installed the script "bar" in the bin/ directory of your python installation. > >> 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. There's no plan to provide the uninstall feature for old packages, but to provide a new egg-info standard that can be used on previous Python version. (and therefore the uninstall feature that goes with it) > > Obviously.. there's ways around it... I don't see how, since there were no standard way back then to keep track of installed files Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
