Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> writes:
2009/7/2 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>:
I think that calling distutils an “install program” is confusing. When I discuss distutils, I don't call it a program at all; it's a library (or perhaps “framework”) that provides part of the job of package installation.
I agree, but I consider the fact that distutils "provides" python setup.py install means that it "is an install program" in some people's minds. These are the same people who complain about the lack of a distutils uninstall feature.
Well, I don't suffer from that confusion between the library and a specific program, yet I still want distutils to support uninstall :-) and hence am interested in seeing the fate of this PEP. -- \ “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do | `\ it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), | _o__) Pensées, #894. | Ben Finney