On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:
On 18-Apr-05, at 8:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. The problem I have with it is not installation, but version management. Finding out what versions of what packages are installed is not straightforward.
If the problem is version management, the solution may not be to build a new installer process. Encouraging vendors to add metadata to their distutils scripts for a) version, and b) a URL to check for updates, would be useful. A good place to start would be to build a tool which goes through python installed libraries and attempts to determine the version of each, reporting back with all the versions (and a list of libraries for which version couldn't be determined). Another low-tech solution would be to start a wiki page with known latest versions, urls to download the latest versions, and the above script. No reinvention of the wheel needed, just leveraging what we already have in a different way.
Which would be nice, except distutils preserves no metadata at all upon installation.
-bob
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