On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:15:20PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:

> So retrieving the license information at the same point we retrieve 
> manifests would seem reasonable?

In a real install context -- i.e., not install -n, not contents or info.

> That's an interesting (and preferable) approach.  That is, instead of 
> loading the license text, having each exception provide either an opener() 
> that returned a file object to stream the content, or providing the path to 
> the file itself.  In either case, I would expect a str() of the exception 
> to have the same effect.

What, effect, exactly?  Displaying the license?  I think that's putting way
too much smarts into the __str__() methods.  We're doing more work in
exception classes than we should I think, but this seems more excessive
than the rest to me.  But perhaps I've misunderstood your intent.

Danek
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