On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:56:36 -0700, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
One thing that did occur to me based on this - do we want the format to
support designation of files (such as config files) that *shouldn't* be
uninstalled along with everything else? Or are we happy with not
mentioning the file in RECORD at all as the means of supporting that use
case?
No. In my view, the uninstall feature is a relatively minor issue -
people who want uninstall facilities generally use system packages (or
complain that easy_install doesn't support uninstallation :-)). They
aren't using setup.py install. (Of course, my experience is minimal in
this regard, so maybe I'm wrong).
Remember that the PEP says "Distutils will provide a **very basic**
uninstall function" (my emphasis).
Unless I'm misunderstanding, no-one is intending to use the new
distutils uninstall feature in their own package manager
(bdist_wininst, RPM, apt, ...)
Perhaps distutils can also provide an `uninstall` hook that application
can use to do some pre-processing?
import distutils.installer
distutils.installer.register_uninstall_hoook(my_uninstall_hook)
I imagine that packages like pywin32 may have to register DLLs (install
time) and unregister them (uninstall time).
Just a wild idea .. I understand that this may not be related to the
current PEP. :-)
-srid
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