Ian Bicking wrote: > I can imagine adding a little information, basically a log of when and > why and who installed the package. For instance: > > agent: pip 0.5 > install-date: 2009-10-08T13:44:00UTC > installed-for-user: False > installed-for-package: OtherPackage==0.3 > > Potentially a package could have multiple records, because multiple > installers may in some sense touch a package (e.g., if you install > YetAnotherPackage that requires the same library as OtherPackage). You > could use INI-style and maybe label each record with the date, like > [2009-10-08T13:44:00UTC].
Carl: > Sure; I considered this possibility too, but wanted to keep the initial > proposal to "the simplest thing that could possibly work." I have no > problem with a log-style approach that includes more information, and if > it makes sense to others I can work on the implementation. I'd go for the simplest approach at first. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would say REQUESTED due to my arguments for not recording > installed-as-package-dependency. +1 Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
