Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen <at> dekkers.ch> writes: > We can specify that paths in RECORDS can be relative to the parent > directory of the .dist-info directory or absolute and both must be > supported by installation tools. Whether relative or absolute paths > are used is decided by the tool that creates/modifies the RECORDS > file. > > That seems easy enough to implement, while flexible enough to support > the different use cases.
Yes, and I've now implemented this in distlib. Tests are still to be added to cover all cases, but I am now able to upgrade / uninstall pip-installed dists, which seems promising. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig