X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=iankelling.org;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md;h=40bb917cee0685c947901aec769e77379bc0a40d;hp=53db8e60154bfb52866307055947866a5240edc2;hb=HEAD;hpb=d0a5b73d2a275bfff5957961f2360df8966bee22 diff --git a/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md b/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md index 53db8e6..40bb917 100644 --- a/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md +++ b/blog/2014-08-07-python-uninstall.md @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ comment_links: `setup.py install` is the base standard install method for Python projects. I found myself wanting to uninstall one of these projects the other day. Turns out it doesn't support uninstall, but Google's top result is a Stackoverflow answer with ~250 votes that says [it can be done no problem](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1550226/python-setup-py-uninstall). -What it doesn't say is that it will silently fail / delete the wrong files when filenames have spaces, along with other important limitations. I looked around at all the other answers and links from google and there was no better answer. How does this happen for a widely used package inluded in Python for at least [15 years](http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/61c91c7f101b/Lib/distutils)? +What it doesn't say is that it will silently fail / delete the wrong files when filenames have spaces, along with other important limitations. I looked around at all the other answers and links from google and there was no better answer. How does this happen for a widely used package included in Python for at least [15 years](http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/61c91c7f101b/Lib/distutils)? It’s pretty standard fair: uninstall has spotty support across a great many installation technologies. I won't try to draw some broad conclusion. -Instead, I wrote a [comprehensive wiki page on Uninstalling setup.py install](https://ofswiki.org/wiki/Uninstalling_setup.py_install). +Instead, I wrote a [comprehensive wiki page on Uninstalling setup.py install](/technical-notes/setup.py-uninstall.html).