David Cournapeau wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 1. easy_remove! >>>> >>>> 2. Various utilities to provide query package management. >>>> - easy_install --list (list files installed) >>>> >>> Implementing is easier said than done, and I think you got that >>> idea from the lack of response from folks... >>> >> >> I don't see why this should be all that difficult to implement. >> > > In part because different people want different things from the > packaging, with often conflicting goals. Those conflicts increase pretty > quickly when you take into account different platforms/type of > development (desktop apps vs "libraries" vs webapp vs etc...). The > "cross-platformness" alone, with the underlying philosophical > differences on how to do deployment (bundling vs backward compatible > dependencies, etc...) is quite hard to manage. >
The issue I need to address is to cooperate with other packaging systems. I'm using Fedora, which is rpm/yum based. A new python module is announced, I'd like to easy_install it. The official fedora package may be delayed by weeks. So I easy_install. But when the fedora update comes, they may conflict. For example, scons from fedora will place things in /usr/lib/scons, not the same as easy_install. easy_install will modify easy-install.pth. Nothing will clean it. So, there is a real need for easy_uninstall. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
