On 22 Mar, 2008, at 2:44, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:41:00PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:I'm making the assumption that the author(s) of PEP 262 had good reason for including what they did, rather than assuming that we should start the entire process over from scratch.The goal *was* originally to provide for RPM-like verification of file content, but I don't know that the verification feature really matters that much; OSes with packaging systems already support such a feature, probably, and it probably isn't particularly useful for systems without a packaging system.
Why not? Checksums would allow you to build a small packaging system on top the python system. Ronald
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