[Distutils] Uninstall command, the return

[Tarek Ziadé]

Reading your answer and Chris's, I am now wondering, if we have a
global uninstall command,
why we wouldn't have a global install command....

How hard would it be, from your projects, to have the
install/uninstall feature, on the top
of today's distutils ? (since the record feature is in distutils)

In other words, is the current "record" feature of distutils would be
sufficient ?


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Next, (in a second step) I was wondering if a uninstall registery
>> could not be a good thing to have,
>> to store a record of the installed files so there's no need to keep
>> the source for uninstallation.
>> This would required a new command, (and a detailed specification of
>> course)
>
> pip writes an installation record in Package.egg-info/installed-files.txt
> (based on the setuptools --record option, with filenames made relative).
> So... that's similar to it.  Of course, to be accurate you have to make sure
> you don't install over those files.  So pip should really be uninstalling
> before installing something new, and probably be fancy about the whole thing
> (maybe like Enstaller is doing).
>
> But if tools do respect the integrity of those files, it's a reasonably
> simple record.  Well, that and they should be careful about one package
> overwriting another packages file (which I haven't really seen happen, but
> of course it *could* happen).
>
> --
> Ian Bicking  |  http://blog.ianbicking.org
>



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