Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com writes:
If you want eby-style uninstall to be fast, index record in sqlite in a
post-install hook.
I'm not sure what you mean by Eby-style uninstall, but uninstalling is already
fast enough, AFAIK.
I'm horrified that overwrite any file on my system is a
On 02/19/2013 05:18 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
I've implemented it now in distlib, and it seems to
work as far as it goes (no consideration has been given to namespace packages
yet).
Speaking of namespace packages, 2 points:
1. When deleting, you must either be aware of namespace packages and/or
Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com writes:
Speaking of namespace packages, 2 points:
1. When deleting, you must either be aware of namespace packages and/or
make sure to not delete source or .py[co] files that you did not
install. One distribution could install foo.bar, and another then
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com wrote:
2. Does the metadata need to contain information about namespace
packages? It's settable in distribute/setuptools' setup.py. I'm not sure
if the need for it has been obviated by PEP 420 or not.
I don't think distutils or
PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com writes:
Yes - it's unnecessary for library directories (e.g. stuff under
site-packages). You may safely remove any empty subdirectory of the
directories containing the .dist-info, that is a parent of any of the
files belonging to the distribution you are
On Feb 18, 2013 3:32 AM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com writes:
Yes - it's unnecessary for library directories (e.g. stuff under
site-packages). You may safely remove any empty subdirectory of the
directories containing the .dist-info, that is
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com
wrote:
On 2/16/2013 7:40 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
With my suggestion about keeping a list of shared locations around, then
namespace package directories
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
The main problem I can see is with namespace packages: you could get a
Do you want to delete this directory? every time you uninstalled a
distribution that contributed files to a namespace package.
Actually, the idea of
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes:
That suggests to me that a separate clean command in the PEP 376
aware tools would be a better choice, where it looks for directories
that are either empty or contain only
I've been thinking about uninstallation of distributions, and it seems possible
that PEP 376 is underspecified if we want uninstallation to work interoperably
between different tools that implement the PEP.
It seems desirable that uninstallation should undo the process of installation
as far as
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Another question arises - what is to be done when directories, which are
meant to be deleted during uninstallation, contain files which were not put
there during installation of the distribution being removed? It would
On 16 February 2013 09:58, Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Another question arises - what is to be done when directories, which are
meant to be deleted during uninstallation, contain files which were not
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 February 2013 09:58, Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
Another question arises - what is to be done when directories, which
Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com writes:
The obvious example is pyc/pyo files.
Yes, and these could be deleted even if they are not in the RECORD file (they
would be if byte-compiling is done at installation time, but not otherwise).
It would be good to cater better for clean uninstalls.
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com writes:
That suggests to me that a separate clean command in the PEP 376
aware tools would be a better choice, where it looks for directories
that are either empty or contain only __pycache__ subdirectories. Such
That seems to suggest that you can't be sure
On 2/16/2013 7:40 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
With my suggestion about keeping a list of shared locations around, then
namespace package directories could be kept in such a list. When uninstalling,
all the subpackages added in the particular distribution being uninstalled
would
be removed, but
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com wrote:
On 2/16/2013 7:40 AM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
With my suggestion about keeping a list of shared locations around, then
namespace package directories could be kept in such a list. When
uninstalling,
all the subpackages added
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