[Python-Dev] PEP 365 (Adding the pkg_resources module)

[Terry Reedy]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote in message 
news:20080321124944.ABDF03A4074 at sparrow.telecommunity.com...

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