deinstall (Was: Re: [Distutils] setup.py clean questions )

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Fri Feb 16 09:23:01 2001


> One could try to let the install(_data) command run in a quiet dry_run
> mode,
> afterwards you could get all file names by calling get_outputs() for
> the install command.
> (You have to run the command because at least for install_data the
> internal outputs variable is set by run(). ) 
Better would be to replicate and invert the code from
install_data.run(), because we would want to also
remove directories created.

Thomas