[Distutils] What is needed by an uninstall command to be useful ?

David Cournapeau david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fri Jun 20 13:31:15 CEST 2008


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> Well, what *else* is going to produce it?

The install command. That's how I did a first draft, and that's how 
Chris did it in his patch, I think (I have not studied it carefully 
yet). An uninstall command which does not work without installing in a 
special way does not make any sense.

cheers,

David



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