On Apr 23, 4:27 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Golden wrote: > > John Nagle wrote: > >> Mike Driscoll wrote: > >>> Ken, > > >>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Kenneth McDonald > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Sadly. > > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Ken > >>>> -- > >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > >>> I've attached the 2.4 version. I also have some Windows binaries for > >>> Beautiful Soup uploaded to my website: > >>>http://www.pythonlibrary.org/python_modules.htm > > >> What on earth do you need a "Windows binary" for? "BeautifulSoup" > >> is ONE PYTHON SOURCE FILE, "BeautifulSoup.py". > > > Ummm.. Why does it bother you? Mike seems to be offering a public > > service to Windows users: by downloading the .exe, I can double-click > > on one file, have the module or package installed (whether it contains > > one .py file or twenty or a series of compiled extension modules and > > their respective DLLs) and for a bonus it's registered in the system > > packages directory [*] and is therefore uninstallable from there. > > Executing strange executables is risky. One always wonders what > else they install in addition to what they're supposed be installing. > > John Nagle
This is a legitimate issue and one I don't know how to solve. It would be nice to have some kind of verification process, but I'm unaware of anything affordable. If you have any ideas, feel free to express them. I hope to get testimonials from developers or pythoneers eventually. Suggestions are welcome. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
