We want to provide a way to let the user know that a new version of
Chandler is available. I, and others, have been looking at how other
apps solve this and have been keeping notes in bug 603 ( https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603
). Not wanting to reinvent the wheel I asked Phillip about
setuptools, and in the simplest form you can do something like:
pi = PackageIndex()
dist = pi.obtain(Requirement.parse("Somepackage>Someversion"))
if dist is not None:
# it exists and can be downloaded
Under the hood it uses urllib, which we can configure to honor
whatever proxy settings the user has entered in Chandler. Heikki
mentioned a desire to use HTTPS which means we would need proxy
support for HTTPS as well.
What do people think about using setuptools for new-version detection?
~morgen
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