| msg145090 - (view) |
Author: Paul Moore (paul.moore) *  |
Date: 2011-10-07 15:22 |
| When uninstalling a package installed using a bdist_wininst installer, the uninstall reports "XXX files and directories could not be removed". The problem appears to be the __pycache__ directories introduced in Python 3.2, which are not removed properly. |
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| msg145097 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2011-10-07 16:21 |
| Thanks for the report. Are you familiar with the bdist_wininst code? I am not (yet), so if you could make a patch it would help a lot. See also #11254 (which I will commit shortly). |
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| msg145124 - (view) |
Author: Paul Moore (paul.moore) * |
Date: 2011-10-07 18:55 |
| Not really (tbh, not at all). If I get some spare time, I can have a look at producing a patch, but I have little time available for coding at the moment (and I'm switching constantly between 3 PCs, so never have a working development environment when I need one :-() If I get anything workable before you do, I'll post it here. |
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| msg145208 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2011-10-09 03:21 |
| I don’t have a Windows VM set up yet, but I can try to write a patch in the coming weeks and ask you to test it. Deal? |
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| msg145235 - (view) |
Author: Paul Moore (paul.moore) * |
Date: 2011-10-09 07:44 |
| On 9 October 2011 04:21, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment: > > I don’t have a Windows VM set up yet, but I can try to write a patch in the coming weeks and ask you to test it. Deal? No problem there! |
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| msg152964 - (view) |
Author: Paul Moore (paul.moore) * |
Date: 2012-02-09 16:47 |
| Have you had a chance to look at this yet? |
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| msg153009 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2012-02-10 03:42 |
| No, I worked on other things in my Python time. I did get a Windows image, but failed to configure the VM*. I’ve found some doc and will try again, or go back to the idea of giving you a patch to test. * (It gives a BSOD at boot, so one could argue that it counts as “working” for Windows :) |
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| msg153090 - (view) |
Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) * |
Date: 2012-02-11 04:44 |
| So I had a quick look at the code and found the lines in need of a fix. The problem comes as usual from our friend “path + optimize and 'o' or 'c'”. I can read some C, so I tried to replace that with imp.cache_from_source, but a real C programmer should take it from here, especially if they find themselves on Windows so that they can recompile the wininst*.exe file and test the fix :) |
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| msg153117 - (view) |
Author: Paul Moore (paul.moore) * |
Date: 2012-02-11 09:55 |
| I'll try to take a look over the next couple of days. |
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| msg224348 - (view) |
Author: Mark Lawrence (BreamoreBoy) * |
Date: 2014-07-30 21:46 |
| Just a gentle reminder. |
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| msg224350 - (view) |
Author: Paul Moore (paul.moore) * |
Date: 2014-07-30 21:56 |
| I'm not sure how relevant this is any more, as pip is the preferred installer these days and it cleanly uninstalls projects. At least for my usage, I no longer use wininst installers at all. I won't close this myself, though, as the issue still exists. But I won't object if it is closed as "wontfix". |
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| msg384816 - (view) |
Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * |
Date: 2021-01-11 12:50 |
| The distutils bdist_wininst command has been removed in Python 3.10: see bpo-42802. |
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