Eric Smith writes: > But I think we've veered into metadata that describes what has been > installed. I don't think that's so useful. As I've said, this is private > to the installers. If 2 installers want to communicate with each other > about what they've installed, then they can agree on that data. I just > don't find it generally useful for all installers, and therefore not > useful for distutils.
ISTM that the problem that it solves is uninstall in the absence of the original installer. Am I to understand that you don't think that use case is important? Or that there's another way to do this? _______________________________________________ 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
