On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:41:00PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > I'm making the assumption that the author(s) of PEP 262 had good > reason for including what they did, rather than assuming that we > should start the entire process over from scratch.
The goal *was* originally to provide for RPM-like verification of file content, but I don't know that the verification feature really matters that much; OSes with packaging systems already support such a feature, probably, and it probably isn't particularly useful for systems without a packaging system. --amk _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
