[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - Open questions

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:07 AM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Right, and for instance, Fedora packagers are using it to re-package eggs

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python/Eggs#Providing_Eggs_using_Setuptools

with the --root option, so they will get a RECORD file and will be
able to set a value for
the INSTALLER one,