On Sun, Apr 12, 2009, Garrett Cooper wrote: >On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 1. easy_remove! >> >> 2. Various utilities to provide query package management. >> - easy_install --list (list files installed) > > Implementing is easier said than done, and I think you got that >idea from the lack of response from folks...
I don't see why this should be all that difficult to implement. I work with the OpenPKG portable package management system, an RPM based system that exists independently of the underlying systems' packaging/software management, and it is not difficult to define procedures that cleanly management package removal and the associated dependencies. On the other hand, when building packages, I never want the build to be affected by processes that go to the Internet to pick up pieces that are thought to be out of date -- which is why I am not comfortable with much of the easy_install, setuptools philosophy. After almost 20 years of working primarily with perl, I found one of the big advantages of python was the lack of magic. While magic can be used to advantage by people like Damian Conway, author of Objective Perl, I prefer things that are reaily understood, and not subject to unexpected behavior. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- Buckminster Fuller _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
