On 3-jun-2005, at 23:24, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > 3. What's the deal with PackageManager? What is a "repository", > exactly, > and what format are the packages in a repository?
If you don't know you don't wanna know :-). The idea of PackageManager was that a trusted platform maintainer would maintain a repository of Python packages that have been build *and tested* on OSX, basically Fink or Darwinports for Python packages. This would also include a nice GUI to make it easier for novices to install additional tested packages. The downside is that the actual implementation has major issues, or "development opportunities". Most of those have been rehashed on this list in past. Sadly enough Jack doesn't seem to have much time to work on MacPython at the moment. Bob's collection of installer packages is another implementation of that idea (but without the package selection GUI). He used to have a PackMan repository as well, but stopped maintaining that because of the issues with PackMan. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
