Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> writes: > On May 29, 2010, at 09:12 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > >That's the point I am trying to express: it's "implicit, embed, > >installers in project's setup.py" vs "an installer globally installed, > >knowing how to install projects that follows a given standard" > > I feel pretty firmly that the choice of installer should /not/ be left > up to the project's setup.py. That's within the domain of the user, or > by proxy, their operating system.
That is the ideal, yes. We need to get to the point where the packaging data stops being an executable program, and is instead purely declarative metadata with a well-defined format and semantic speification. -- \ “Software patents provide one more means of controlling access | `\ to information. They are the tool of choice for the internet | _o__) highwayman.” —Anthony Taylor | Ben Finney
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