On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:07 AM, P.J. Eby<p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 09:38 AM 7/9/2009 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> >> 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. > > Or uninstall where the installer is "setup.py install", actually. >
Right, and for instance, Fedora packagers are using it to re-package eggs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python/Eggs#Providing_Eggs_using_Setuptools with the --root option, so they will get a RECORD file and will be able to set a value for the INSTALLER one, _______________________________________________ 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
