At 01:09 PM 12/20/2005 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>The ez_setup bootstrap
>definitely checks the md5 for known versions of setuptools, and I'm
>assuming that a similar feature is in easy_install for normal packages.
No need to assume; see the 'check_md5' method of the PackageIndex class in
setupt
> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>> On 13-dec-2005, at 22:42, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I'd like to focus attention on these distribution formats
that distutils is missing:
>>>
>>> I'd like t
Bernhard Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> What do you have in mind - a bdist_wininst lookalike for
>>> Python packages, built with inno?
>>
>> Yes. One that creates an Inno setup file and then compiles
>> everything into an installer using the
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On 20-dec-2005, at 15:40, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure Apple will add support for uninstall soon. Even if not,
>> we can easily add an uninstall script to the created package which
>> then removes all traces of the installed package - much like
>> bdist_wininst do
At 03:40 PM 12/20/2005 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>AFAIK, easy_install doesn't
>provide any kind of authenticity control - probably due to
>the fact that PyPI doesn't have this feature. At least the
>MD5 sum should be checked, but for this, the PyPI registry
>would have to provide this information
On 20-dec-2005, at 15:40, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> I'm sure Apple will add support for uninstall soon. Even if not,
> we can easily add an uninstall script to the created package which
> then removes all traces of the installed package - much like
> bdist_wininst does in order to support uninstall
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Automatic downloads are nice to have as well, but sys admins
> rarely trust tools that automatically download and install
> software, unless they have complete control of where things
> are downloaded, when and whether there's proper authenticity
> control built into the tool
Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On 13-dec-2005, at 22:42, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>> On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> I'd like to focus attention on these distribution formats
>>> that distutils is missing:
>>>
>>
>> I'd like to another
