Windows install/uninstall behavior [Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.2 (final)]

[Michael Geary]

Michael Geary wrote:
> > What about other packages like win32all and ctypes? Uninstall them and
> > reinstall after upgrading Python, or leave them alone?

Tim Peters wrote:
> For a micro release, leave them alone.  The Python uninstaller is very
good
> about removing only the stuff it installed, and leaves other packages
alone.
> It's a rigid rule of micro releases belonging to the same minor release
that
> they're 100% binary compatible, so if any other package breaks due to a
> micro Python upgrade, that's a bug in the package that broke.  I haven't
> seen that happen yet.

Hmm... The Python 2.3 uninstaller doesn't seem to behave that way. It
removed my *entire* Python23 directory including all packages installed in
that directory.

-Mike