On 2010-02-05, at 8:13 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Hi,
The part that still requires some work is how to handle files prefixes in the RECORD file.
Last time we said that we could benefit of having a PREFIXES file. Then Wolojda started to work on a much more complete solution to track data file locations : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-November/014424.html
But IIRC he's not able to work on this at this time. (CCing him in case..)
What I suggest is that we leave this new work for a future enhanced version of PEP 376, and try to finish a version that we would want to have in Python 2.7 (that's coming very soon), where RECORD contains what we want to make it possible to remove installed files + provide the query API.
As far as I am concerned, the RECORD thingie needs more live examples on various platforms (that's what I am working on now),
But since Pip has now a uninstaller for a few months, the question is: what do you Pip guys think about this RECORD file ? (cc'ing Ian as well - I know the other involved in that are listening here :))
PyPM stores file paths relative to sys.prefix in the installation database. The binary package file (*.pypm/data.tar.gz) contains installed files relative to sys.prefix - implying that files-outside-sys.prefix are not supported by PyPM. Do we have a real-world example for installing uninstallable data files outside sys.prefix? -srid