On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > As far as I can see, it's just so much better to have a > package uninstaller in a seperate gui tool. That can be > installed over an existing installation.
We are planning to propose a backport for previous versions > The big problem with using a manifest of installed files is that > the setup.py in distutils can generate more files than were originally > in the source package. Doing a build... for instance... leaves .o > or .obj files. And creates scripts files, etc.. > > The way to solve the problem is to recursively delete the whole > package directory. That gets rid of everything. Intermediate files > and all... > >> >> What would be the interest of having the list of source files in >> egg-info ? > > Not neccessary - recursively delete the whole package directory or > .egg file. No because you can have files installed anywhere The way to handle de-installation is to use the recorded list of file that can be created by the 'sdist' command at installation time It's the --record option and we want to put its output in "RECORD" in the egg.info Now my point is : do we want to add the MANIFEST (source file list) file as well. Setuptools and pip are adding a SOURCES.txt file at this point. Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
