How to downgrade/remove ZODB (or any other module)?

[Richard Shea]

Hi - I have just installed ZODB for the first time. However after I'd
finished I realised that I'd installed a development release and not a
stable release so I'd like to downgrade or remove the current
installation and start again.

I installed via a Windows installer from which I could extract a list
of files and then manually remove (there are 290 files) but is there
some less labourious way of removing a module ?

Thanks

Richard Shea.

[Mike C. Fletcher]

If it's using a normal distutils installer, just go to "Add/Remove
Programs" in your Windows Control Panel and select the ZODB package for
removal.

HTH,
Mike

Richard Shea wrote:

Hi - I have just installed ZODB for the first time. However after I'd
finished I realised that I'd installed a development release and not a
stable release so I'd like to downgrade or remove the current
installation and start again.

I installed via a Windows installer

....

_______________________________________
Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/

[bdecker]

* Richard Shea <ri*********@fastmail.fm> [2004-03-10 02:05:10 -0800]:

Hi - I have just installed ZODB for the first time. However after I'd
finished I realised that I'd installed a development release and not a
stable release so I'd like to downgrade or remove the current
installation and start again.

I installed via a Windows installer from which I could extract a list
of files and then manually remove (there are 290 files) but is there
some less labourious way of removing a module ?

Then why don't you just unistall the development package via the 'control
panel' and install the stable release you want.

Mixing distributions is something very dangerous, something that release
managers and developers themselves rarely do (unless they know exaclty
what source code they are reintroducing and for what reason). And even
then the current sources are simply patched with the previous solution
and 'upgraded' again.
.... and if that was you, I doubt that you would be asking us this
question ;-)

PS. I rarely see 'downgrading' except on M$ systems
;-)

Ben

[Richard Shea]

OK that's great - thanks to both of you. Although I had used the .EXE
to install for some reason I hadn't considered it putting an
'uninstall' entry in the control panel. I've just done it and it seems
to work fine.

thanks again.

richard shea.