How to delete a Python package

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

Skip,
I agree. Some kind of a manifest or log file would be great and
probably not that hard to implement.
Nick


skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Nick> Uninstall support is hard, you would turn distutils (setup.py)
>     Nick> into a package management system, but wait...!  there are already
>     Nick> package managers that do exactly that (rpm, deb, Windows
>     Nick> Installer).
>
> Note that I don't really care about uninstall support, certainly not enough
> to go through the pain of editing distutils.  I'd be happy if the installer
> wrote a MANIFEST file that tells me what files and directories it did
> install.  I'm not as worried about dependencies or overlaps between packages
> as much as making sure that when I want to get rid of package X I can
> actually delete all of its files.  I also realize that's not truly package
> management in the rpm/deb sense, but that would be good enough for me.
>
> My message was simply pointing out that telling people "use RPM or DEB" is
> not really acceptable.  Not everyone uses Linux.  Or Windows.  Or Macs.
> Python is a cross-platform language.  Through distutils it includes a basic
> cross-platform installation facility.  It probably ought to also have a
> corresponding basic cross-platform uninstall facility.
> 
> Skip