[Python-Dev] PEP 376

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Scott David
Daniels<Scott.Daniels at acm.org> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [1] I'd actually like it if the PEP defined an uninstall command -
>>> something like "python -m distutils.uninstall packagename". It can be
>>> as minimalist as you like, but I'd like to see it present.
>>
>> it's already there:
>>
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/#adding-an-uninstall-function
>
> That (at least as I read it) is a function, not a command.
> If it is a command, give an example of its use from the command line
> for us poor "don't want to research" people.  If the following works:
>
>    $ python setup.py uninstall some_package
>
> Then explicitly say so for us poor schlubs.
>

Right, I'll add that. Although it will be a reference implementation only.