-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
Here's a summary of my take on the discussion thus far: - - There's been some discussion of terminology, based on which I'm proposing the file be called REQUESTED, and the Distribution boolean attribute be .requested. I've updated the demo implementation at http://bitbucket.org/carljm/pep376/ accordingly. - - Several people are in favor of tracking this metadata, and also interested in logging additional data about which installers dealt with an installed package, why, and when. The additional logging isn't inherent to this proposal and can be proposed separately if there's strong interest (same with the brief mention of a generic metadata API). - - At least one person is concerned that this level of metadata is insufficient for good uninstaller performance. AFAICS this concern is not possible to address directly without significant changes to the nature and scope of PEP 376 (i.e. a centralized "installed packages" database with dependency graph data, or a distributed simulation of one), but there are ways to mitigate the issue in actual (un)installer implementations. - - At least one person does not want orphan detection in their uninstaller tool. Since it's clear that other people do, and it would be simple to implement or modify an uninstaller such that it would treat all installed packages as REQUESTED and never mention orphan packages, I don't see this as a blocking concern. At this point I don't see any issues raised that would prevent moving ahead with the proposal. Is there anything I've missed? Thanks, Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFK1dGp1j/fhc23WEARAnXvAKDX/HAKhXZFl5u0YBh6B5S3bNmX9gCeLcBM Gz5YA2Bhc4/9uxKKqtElL5k= =mrgu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
