Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> writes: > 2009/7/2 Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: > > I think that calling distutils an “install program” is confusing. > > When I discuss distutils, I don't call it a program at all; it's a > > library (or perhaps “framework”) that provides part of the job of > > package installation. > > I agree, but I consider the fact that distutils "provides" python > setup.py install means that it "is an install program" in some > people's minds. These are the same people who complain about the lack > of a distutils uninstall feature.
Well, I don't suffer from that confusion between the library and a specific program, yet I still want distutils to support uninstall :-) and hence am interested in seeing the fate of this PEP. -- \ “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do | `\ it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), | _o__) Pensées, #894. | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
