"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To Paul's question: I have only installed a couple of things (and not recently) that added their own add/remove entry. But I am not sure I would have called them add-ons as opposed to independent applications written in Python. | I presume he means that there are a lot of entries in his Add/Remove | Programs that work like that, and that it's an emerging standard for | Windows. (Certainly I've seen quite a few entries like that in mine, | although more often than not they only have one checkbox!) Yes. At least half my experience with uninstalls is removing games. Recent games typically have separate boxes for various things such as games files, save files, mods, game directory and any user added content, and icons and registry entries. Most Python add-ons I have downloaded are unziped to site-packages and only a few megabytes in size (versus gigabytes for some games). Hence there is little need to uninstall them (unless dumping everything connected with pyx.y, which is easy). Hence no desire to have add/remove slowed down and cluttered with dozens of entries for such things. I admit that my wish for a better installation manager is something I can only help with on the surface by expressing desires and testing results as a practice user. tjr _______________________________________________ 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