[Distutils] RFC : PEP 376 - egg.info

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:43:42 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> That's true that they can be installed anywhere. But there always
>>> needs to be an entry in a .PTH file along the python path to
>>> specify where the files were installed to.
>>
>> You don't specify in this pth file that the package "foo" installed
>> the script "bar"
>> in the bin/ directory of your python installation.
>
> But during package installation, this information will be written
> into a .PTH file somewhere along the python path...

No, you just have a list of relative paths to installed package there that's it.

> If you have a deinstallation facility, then it must work for new
> packages as well as old. Otherwise, imho there's just no point.
>

See David C. comment. How do you expect such a system to properly install
a project that was installed in an unknown manner in the past ?

You don't even know what packages were installed for your project
unless you digg into the source distribution.

For example, if a project installs two packages in your Python, how do
you know it ?

A project is not a self-contained directory we can remove recursively

Cheers
Tarek

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