[Python-Dev] magic in setuptools (Was: setuptools in the stdlib) (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Fri Apr 21 00:32:01 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

What I'm opposed to in making setuptools install things the distutils way by default is that there is no easy path to clean upgrade or installation in the absence of a system packaging tool like RPM or deb or what-have-you. I am not opposed to doing the "classic" style of installation by default forever, but only until setuptools can handle uninstallation and upgrades in that format. Right now, it's a lot easier to uninstall things if they are all in one directory.

If that's all it takes, have a look at the uninstall implementation in mxSetup.py (e.g. from egenix-mx-base).

This will work with any half decent distutils setup.py file, since it uses the original install process as basis for finding the files to uninstall. (Not my idea: credits go to Thomas Heller.)

BTW, if there's interest, I can look into porting the stuff in mxSetup.py into stock distutils. That'll give it uninstall, some autoconf and support for building Unix C libs as part of the process (plus a bunch of other things).

-- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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