Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > simple Python-only modules, all you'd really need to do to prove the > concept is to develop the client-side Windows software (eg. apt-get > for Windows) which downloads package lists, verifies signatures, and > works out where to put the package contents. ...
I thought the Windows "solution" to this was Authenticode, which is a scheme for signing executables against certificates similar to those used on SSL web sites. Of course there's been at least one notorious forgery, but typical Linux distro repositories are probably not all that secure either. In the case of a pure Python program like Beautiful Soup, I certainly think any installation needing running code should be done by distutils included in the Python distro. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list