2009/6/4 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>: > Oups messed up sorry -> resending my answer > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Brian Sutherland > <br...@vanguardistas.net> wrote: >>> - http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/pep-0386.txt >> >> ... < V('1.0.dev456') >> ... < V('1.0') >> ... < V('1.0.dev456post623') >> >> Looks like a typo or very un-intuitive. It doesn't seem right that a >> "dev" version sorts after a full release. > > This is a dev version of a post-release version. Which is an edge case > submitted by Phillip. > > How would you write it ?
... < V('1.0.dev456') ... < V('1.0.dev456post123') # post-release of a dev version ... < V('1.0') ... < V('1.0.post456dev623') # dev version of a post-release ... < V('1.0.post456') # post release i.e. that a postfix of "dev" means "before" and a postfix of "post" means after. >> >>> >>> - PEP 376 | status : waiting for Phillip complementary feedback (and >>> anyone else of course) >> >> >> I can imagine distutils uninstalling files previously installed by dpkg >> as a shortcut to breaking a machine. Though I'm not sure what will >> actually happen in practice. > > Distutils defines a standard for an EGG-INFO structure, and provides a > API for the uninstallation that is more likely to be a reference > implementation. > > Although, It is already providing an install feature. > > If uninstalling a package with Distutils, while it was installed by dpkg > breaks, > > I can imagine that in the very same system, you can also break it > if you *install* packages with Distutils, easy_install, pip because > you shortcut dpkg > as well. Yep. Though I think that nowdays dpkg installs to a different directory than Distutils' default. So users have to specify extra options to break their systems. > I think this is the responsability of such a system to make sure it handles > all installation and uninstallation. How should such a system stop distutils (acting as root) from doing an uninstallation? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig