Phillip J. Eby wrote: > What I'm opposed to in making setuptools install things the distutils way > by default is that there is no easy path to clean upgrade or installation > in the absence of a system packaging tool like RPM or deb or > what-have-you. I am not opposed to doing the "classic" style of > installation by default *forever*, but only until setuptools can handle > uninstallation and upgrades in that format. Right now, it's a lot easier > to uninstall things if they are all in one directory.
If that's all it takes, have a look at the uninstall implementation in mxSetup.py (e.g. from egenix-mx-base). This will work with any half decent distutils setup.py file, since it uses the original install process as basis for finding the files to uninstall. (Not my idea: credits go to Thomas Heller.) BTW, if there's interest, I can look into porting the stuff in mxSetup.py into stock distutils. That'll give it uninstall, some autoconf and support for building Unix C libs as part of the process (plus a bunch of other things). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 21 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
