uninstall/upgrade?
David Cournapeau
david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Wed Dec 19 09:05:38 GMT 2007
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:51:33AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that's what other people suggested, too, but as said, I opted
>> to remove the old installation (once I figured out where it was) before
>> I tried that, in order to avoid having stale files messing up the new
>> system.
>>
>
> What DO people do about this? The lack of an uninstall
> has always concerned me too.
>
People are always welcomed to provide patchs to distutils (the framework
used by most python packages) to support uninstall target. The problem
being that distutils code is a mess, undocumented and unmaintained,
making the whole thing a bit more difficult to do. But anyway, I don't
see much hope for a reliable uninstall target without a support from a
package manager.
cheers,
David
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