[Tutor] Why is there no uninstall option for setup.py?
wcyee
wcyeee at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 04:42:41 CEST 2009
Hi, When I am able to find and install a windows package distributed
as an exe file, I can just go to "Add & Remove Programs" in the
"Control Panel" and uninstall it.
But if I have to run "python setup.py install", this is not possible.
I'm trying to understand why uninstall has not been provided. After
all, setup.py has been available for many years now, right?
Is this because no one has contributed a patch or code? Or is there
something inherent to python and packages that makes this a hard
problem (on non-windows platforms)? It seems really odd that there is
no such thing after such a long time.
Thanks!
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