deinstall (Was: Re: [Distutils] setup.py clean questions )

[Jack Jansen]

> Here is a simple deinstall command, which you can
> use in your setup script. This can at least be a base for
> a discussion about a more complete one.

Yes, this is pretty much what I had in mind. One point:

>             elif os.path.isdir(name):
>                 self._removefiles(name, os.path.join(srcdir, n))
>                 if not self.dry_run:
>                     os.rmdir(name)

I think this needs a try/except around the rmdir(), with a message in the 
except that the rmdir failed, and possibly, if it failed because the directory 
wasn't empty, a note that there may may be user additions there.

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