On 14 January 2015 at 09:28, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> See https://github.com/OneGet/oneget/wiki/cmdlets for some hint on how >> to use it from its directory once extracted. > > Cool, thanks. I'll take a look.
Neat - it seems to work on Win7, which is great. But I note: >find-package Python WARNING: MSG:ProviderSwidtagUnavailable Name Version Status ProviderName Source Summary ---- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------- python 3.4.2 Available Chocolatey chocolatey Python is a programming language that let... That seems odd for a number of reasons: 1. I have Python 2.6.6, 2.7.8, 3.3.5 and 3.4.1 installed already. Should it not be showing them (so I know not to install the above blindly)? OK, get-package shows me, maybe there's a validation step I missed that won't let me overwrite what I have without confirmation (I'm not keen on trying an install to see what happens!) 2. It's not clear whether the above is the 32-bit or the 64-bit version. If I do find-package Python AllVersions, I get Version ------- 2.7.2 2.7.2.1 2.7.3 2.7.4 2.7.5 2.7.6 3.4.0 3.4.0.20140321 3.4.1 3.4.1.20140610 3.4.1.20141004 3.4.2 (only the versions, to make it paste properly). Still no indication of 32-bit vs 64-bit, multiple versions of some of the Python versions (e.g., 3.4.1). I suspect this is a complaint about Chocolatey rather than OneGet, and it's way off-topic for distutils-sig anyway, but I'd be reluctant to recommend OneGet to Python users until it's much simpler to get a clear understanding of what you're installing. One thought - before looking at a pip provider for OneGet, I'd rather look at what's involved in properly exposing the official python.org installers through OneGet. It *would* be nice if we could say to people "just do Install-Package Python 3.4" to get the latest release of Python 3.4 automatically installed" and know they were getting the official python.org build appropriate to their architecture (x86 or amd64). Chocolatey is fine, but I wouldn't want to blindly trust them by default... Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
