Check out the reasonably modular and cleanly written pyg installer. https://github.com/rubik/pyg/
It has its own independent package database / metadata parser. https://github.com/rubik/pkgtools/blob/master/pkgtools/pkg.py It has a pypi interface too. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig