Paul Rubin wrote:
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.
Yes.
Perl has CPAN, which is reasonably comprehensive and presents modules
in a uniform way. If you need a common Perl module that's not in the
Perl distro, it's probably in CPAN. "Installing a new module can be as
simple as typing perl -MCPAN -e 'install Chocolate::Belgian'."
So Perl has exactly that.
Python's Cheese Shop is just a list of links to packages
elsewhere. There's no uniformity, no standard installation, no
standard uninstallation, and no standard version control.
John Nagle
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