develop uninstall doesn't remove executables

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Originally reported by: schlamar (Bitbucket: schlamar, GitHub: schlamar)

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Running python setup.py develop -u only removes the link in the pth file but it does not remove previously created executables in the Scripts folder under Windows.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/175

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Original comment by joelkim (Bitbucket: joelkim, GitHub: joelkim):

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Same problem. Can anybody fix it?

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Original comment by bwanamarko (Bitbucket: bwanamarko, GitHub: Unknown):

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It also does not remove any dependencies that may have been added to easy-install.pth

EG: a development project with requires numpy==1.9.0 in setup.py but numpy-1.9.3 is already installed in site-packages

• python setup.py develop downloads numpy-.1.9.0
  1. builds it and creates numpy-1.9.0-py<major>.<minor>-<platform>-<archtype>.egg in site-packages,
  2. adds it to easy-install.pth and
  3. also adds f2py.py script to bin/ (or Scripts/ on windows)
• python setup.py develop --uninstall only removes my-dev-proj.egg-link from site-packages and path to the developement project in easy-install.pth
  • the dependencies' scripts are left in bin,
  • dependencies' eggs are left in site-packages and
  • the paths to the eggs are left in easy-install.pth

stdout:

$ python setup.py develop --uninstall
running develop
Removing c:\python27\lib\site-packages\my-dev-proj.egg-link (link to .)
Removing my-dev-proj 0.0.1 from easy-install.pth file

$ ls -al --sort=time --reverse /c/Python27/Scripts/
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmikofski 1049089    169 Dec 18 10:19 f2py.py*  <-- still here!

$ cat /c/Python27/lib/site-packages/easy-install.pth
import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
./numpy-1.9.0-py2.7-win-amd64.egg  # <-- still here!
...

$ ls -al --sort=time --reverse /c/Python27/lib/site-packages/ | grep numpy
drwxr-xr-x 1 mmikofski 1049089       0 Oct  2 08:37 numpy/  <-- original installation
drwxr-xr-x 1 mmikofski 1049089       0 Oct  2 08:37 numpy-1.9.3.dist-info/  <-- original installation
drwxr-xr-x 1 mmikofski 1049089       0 Dec 18 10:19 numpy-1.9.0-py2.7-win-amd64.egg/  <-- still here!

I will try to hack on this if I have time. I greatly appreciate Setuptools, pypa and this new ecology of distributing and managing python packages. I think using develop together with a virtual environment maybe a robust solution. Perhaps in the long run they can be integrated, but in the short term something can be added to the documentation.

Thanks!

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Original comment by embray (Bitbucket: embray, GitHub: embray):

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God help anyone using ./setup.py develop and not using a virtualenv.