[Distutils] pip vs easy_install vs distutils2

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 16:55, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> Not true, inasmuch as it depends on pip. When pip installs distributions
> it uses the --record option to keep a list of all installed files. When
> pip uninstalls distributions it installed, it reliably uninstalls
> everything (though it doesn't have the PEP 376 hash cleverness available
> yet to detect modified files).

Ah, OK, cool. That must be reasonably new, last time I saw a
discussion about this it wasn't the case. That *could* be some time
ago, though. :)