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. > > 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 in some way.
I have to correct myself: Looks like PyPI has grown this feature recently. Does easy_install check the MD5 sum ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 20 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
