Win7. Why Don't Matplotlib, ... Show up in Control Panel Add-Remove?

[W. eWatson]

On 8/8/2010 5:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:15:45 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:
>
>> To suggest Google as above, makes no sense to me. This is the place to
>> ask, as another poster stated.
>
> He may have stated it, but the evidence suggests he's wrong. You're
> asking a question about the details of the installers used specifically
> by scipy and matplotlib. Most people here have no idea about that, hence
> the lack of useful answers. The best likelihood of finding a solution is
> to go to a specialist forum, not a generic one.
>
> In any case, suggesting Google is *always* relevant. You gave us no
> reason at all to think that you had made any effort to solve the problem
> yourself before asking for us to volunteer our time. That's rude. Did you
> google for "uninstall scipy" before asking for help? Did you make any
> effort to read the Scipy manual first? Did you make any effort *at all*?
> If you had -- and for all we know, you might have spent days trying to
> solve this, or 3 seconds, or anything in between -- you didn't say so.
>
> Suggesting that you do some googling is absolutely relevant.
>
> Perhaps it's about time that we point you at this:
>
> http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> I don't agree with everything the author says, but the basic position is
> about right.
>
>
>
For the last few hours, I've been on the scipy and numpy mail list, per 
a suggestion. No one seems to really understand uninstall there. I think 
Ben Caplan may have it right. You and I need go no further with this. We 
disagree--again.