2009/6/4 David Cournapeau <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>: > Ideally, distutils should detect whether it installed the package itself > or not.
Yes, I think having a marker like I suggested some minutes ago, would help > > IMHO, uninstall is beyond the scope of distutils; it is very difficult > to get right, with so many ways to screw up a system badly. The idea of the uninstall API is to provide a reference implementation that can be used in package managers that will rely on the other APIs, rather than a complete system. For instance, Distutils doesn't handle dependencies installation/uninstallation, while PEP 345 introduces them in the metadata. We said earlier this year that it would be better to let projects like easy_install and al provide advanced features for installation / uninstallation _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
