Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Installing new versions of modules over old versions has often caused me problems. Particularly py3exe recently. Admittedly 'uninstalling' the old version was as simple as deleting the folder from 'site-packages'. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html --

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-12 Thread richard
Roger Binns wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think a little database (maybe in xml?) of installed files/modules and their locations would be useful, perhaps even for a future automatic download/installation/dependency-tracking thingmabob that still

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-12 Thread Roger Binns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think a little database (maybe in xml?) of installed files/modules and their locations would be useful, perhaps even for a future automatic download/installation/dependency-tracking thingmabob that still regretably still doesn't

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-06 Thread alia_khouri
Peter Hansen wrote: On your specific reason for asking: I would suggest just not worrying about being extra clean about it. Python's generally pretty good about not messing up when you install a new version of something without uninstalling the previous version. Granted. However, the reason

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-05 Thread Alia Khouri
I'm guessing that this is a non-issue for most people (-; -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Hansen
Alia Khouri wrote: I'm guessing that this is a non-issue for most people (-; Well, you've allowed all of about 1.5 days for replies to come, and on a weekend at that. Be patient. I would also guess it's a non-issue as well, however. A quick perusal of the archives (which I leave to you) would very

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-05 Thread Colin J. Williams
Peter Hansen wrote: Alia Khouri wrote: I'm guessing that this is a non-issue for most people (-; Well, you've allowed all of about 1.5 days for replies to come, and on a weekend at that. Be patient. I would also guess it's a non-issue as well, however. A quick perusal of the archives (which I

why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-03 Thread Alia Khouri
If the cannonical way to install a python app is python setup.py install one would expect the following to uninstall it python setup.py uninstall However, distutils doesn't automatically take care of that for you. Is this by design? Or is this something that could/should be addressed