[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[P.J. Eby]

At 09:38 AM 7/9/2009 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>Eric Smith writes:
>
>  > But I think we've veered into metadata that describes what has been
>  > installed. I don't think that's so useful. As I've said, this is private
>  > to the installers. If 2 installers want to communicate with each other
>  > about what they've installed, then they can agree on that data. I just
>  > don't find it generally useful for all installers, and therefore not
>  > useful for distutils.
>
>ISTM that the problem that it solves is uninstall in the absence of
>the original installer.

Or uninstall where the installer is "setup.py install", actually.


>   Am I to understand that you don't think that
>use case is important?  Or that there's another way to do this?