On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:39:48AM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 1. should the uninstall command be part of the Python interpreter
> itself ?
Don't think I like this. Seems a very big jump from how this normally
works. What I mean is that it feels like it's builtin interperter
functionality, while
Hi,
I started to write a detailed description of the uninstall feature
based on the previous threads we had, and there are two points I'd
like to
discuss:
1. should the uninstall command be part of the Python interpreter itself ?
for instance, be callable like this :
$ python
On Jan 31, 2009, at 23:17 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
There are two problems with stow and setuptools:
- setuptools refuses to install in a directory not in
PYTHONPATH, so python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/stow/my-
package does not work when setup.py uses setuptools. You have to
Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 23:21, zooko wrote:
>
>> Many other people, however, are unwilling to let the Python packaging tool
>> nor the packages that it is installing write into their system directories.
>> For these people, the system directories are never allowed to b
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 23:21, zooko wrote:
> Many other people, however, are unwilling to let the Python packaging tool
> nor the packages that it is installing write into their system directories.
> For these people, the system directories are never allowed to be written
> into by any tool othe
On Jan 29, 2009, at 17:49 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
Many people are asking for an uninstall command.
This is true.
Many other people, however, are unwilling to let the Python packaging
tool nor the packages that it is installing write into their system
directories. For these people, the sys
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:41 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:17 PM 1/30/2009 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> this code is still incomplete, I am waiting for PJE feedback to add
>> the support for zip files that contains
>> several .egg folders or zip files. But the current version is able to
>> find a
At 12:17 PM 1/30/2009 +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
this code is still incomplete, I am waiting for PJE feedback to add
the support for zip files that contains
several .egg folders or zip files. But the current version is able to
find a package and its metadata.
What feedback are you waiting for?
gt; different ways to deal with
> those problems.
>
100 % agreed. My remark was just that uninstalling may require asking
some questions to the user depending on the system state, so a distutils
uninstall command at the UI level may not be advi
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, David Cournapeau
wrote:
>
> I can see several things which have a big impact on an uninstall feature
> design:
>- how to handle multiple versions of one package ?
>- should it handle dependencies ?
from a distutils point of view, none of these features ex
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Reading your answer and Chris's, I am now wondering, if we have a
> global uninstall command,
> why we wouldn't have a global install command
>
> How hard would it be, from your projects, to have the
> install/uninstall feature, on the top
> of today's distutils ? (since th
Reading your answer and Chris's, I am now wondering, if we have a
global uninstall command,
why we wouldn't have a global install command
How hard would it be, from your projects, to have the
install/uninstall feature, on the top
of today's distutils ? (since the record feature is in distutils
Ian Bicking schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
>> Next, (in a second step) I was wondering if a uninstall registery
>> could not be a good thing to have,
>> to store a record of the installed files so there's no need to keep
>> the source for uninstallation.
>> This
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Next, (in a second step) I was wondering if a uninstall registery
> could not be a good thing to have,
> to store a record of the installed files so there's no need to keep
> the source for uninstallation.
> This would required a new command,
Enthought has a package called Enstaller which includes a modified
version of setuptools + an enstaller package that adds some different
functionality. One of the modifications to setuptools adds an uninstall
command which works well with our .egg's. Dealing with eggs allows us
to do some dep
Hello
Many people are asking for an uninstall command. While there are
possible side-effects when removing all installed files,
I think it worths it...
I would like to introduce an uninstall command in distutils, using
Marc-André Lemburg's mxSetup tool
(see http://www.egenix.com/products/python/m
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