On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 15:54 -0700, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 15:32 -0700, Gregory Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> Lucas: This one likely conflicts slightly with your recent setuptools
> >> version change patch.  On recent RPM based distros I suspect they have
> >> a similar python-setuptools package available of sufficiently recent
> >> version that the change below could be extended to support installing
> >> the OS package on those as well.
> >
> > Oh, sorry, I have applied that patch like an hour ago :( I will see how
> > to extend the change to include recent rpm based distros on it as
> > well... Do you think it's better to revert the version bump change? If
> > so, I'll do it right away.
> >
> > Lucas
> 
> 
> No, I think your version bump change needs to stay in.
> 
> Looking at my CL, I think the change from 0.6c9 to 0.6 would actually
> break things for non recent debian/ubuntu users.  oops. :(
> 
> I made that change so that the version comparison against the ubuntu
> lucid package version would work.
> 
> Anyways, I'd suggest not applying my patch to svn until you've looked
> into adding rpm support.  I guess it needs a change to the version
> checking as well.

Yes, it's high time I finish the software_manager library that is
sitting on my hard drive for over an year now :( It's an abstraction
layer, like PackageKit, that would help to manage software installation
through the distro way of doing it.

> -gps


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