On 9/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27.09.2006, at 19:35, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >> What I was looking for is actually a bit more modest: I want to > >> create an installer that checks that all dependencies are fulfilled. > >> Bundling everything in one installer is not always a good idea, as it > >> could easily overwrite an already existing installation of some > >> component. > > > > You can do that from the plist, but you're going to have a hard time > > determining what version of something is installed if they didn't > > install it with a pkg installer. > > True, but I don't mind. The users I am thinking of know nothing about > Python and would just install packages. I want to be able to warn > them if they forget one or try to install them in the wrong order. > > At the moment I I hand-edit the plist to add such checks, but that's > not much fun. Can bdist_mpkg (or some other tool) do this as part of > an automated build procedure?
Yes. Read the source, plenty of hooks to add things to the plist. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
