[Distutils] some installer grumbles

[Thomas Heller]

> 
>  >> (a) the existing installation is not detected with a
>  >> bailout option ("blah blah already installed blah blah
>  >> do you want to continue?")
>  >This should probably wait until there is a distutils registry
>  >of installed modules.
> 
> Is this in the works?

No, I'm not aware of any activity.
However, it's on the todo list.
Here is a comment from a message 'Tasks arising from IPC9'
by Andrew Kuchling, dated 3/10/2001:
  3) Other Distutils changes would be to design and create a package
     database, and implement an uninstall command.  The 'sdist' command
     would also grow an --upload or --register option that would
     automatically submit the package to the catalog (but first we'd need
     to finalize how that should be done).

IIRC, Andrew said this would probably require a PEP.

Thomas