Paul Moore wrote: > - some cases are not simple, and it's not clear to me how useful > "nearly always accurate" data will be
Since the accuracy can always be checked against the filesystem, I think the metadata is useful even if not 100% reliable. Applications that need the extra assurance (such as the distutils uninstaller itself) can check the filesytem and complain when it differs from what it is claimed in the package metadata. One thing that did occur to me based on this - do we want the format to support designation of files (such as config files) that *shouldn't* be uninstalled along with everything else? Or are we happy with not mentioning the file in RECORD at all as the means of supporting that use case? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
