At 01:23 PM 6/4/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
With Windows, if you install using bdist_wininst and then uninstall using the (currently nonexistent) distutils uninstall, I'd expect that it wouldn't remove the Add/Remove programs support items in the registry, and the Removexxx.exe and xxx-wininst.log files installed by bdist_wininst. The system would then still think that the package was installed, even though it isn't. (And the system uninstall may break - I'm not sure).
A bdist_wininst should skip the RECORD file in that case. The RECORD file should still be *in* the installer zip, though, in case someone unpacks it manually.
(Alternatively, perhaps there should be some way to record who/what installed the package, and how it should be uninstalled.)
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