On 18.04.2005, at 17:43, Bob Ippolito wrote:
Unfortunately it's not that simple because you want to change the way the runtime works.
But only by adding a strategy for searching for packages. Those who don't use it will never find out.
I don't think that Installer will silently downgrade stuff. Packages that create
Does it keep track of version numbers then? The Apple docs are quite silent about the installer.
inconsistent installations on upgrade are pretty rare. Removing packages is just not something that needs to happen very often, and when you actually need to do it, you probably know perfectly well how to do it.
Removing is indeed frequent only as a step in updating. There are cases where an update requires removing the old version first, e.g. when a module has been replaced by a subpackage of the same name.
Take a look at the archives and see how many people run into problems with multiple Python installations, etc.
Isn't that mostly because of MacPython and Fink Python being installed in parallel? Fink Python wouldn't be concerned at all.
All that said, if you still think it's worth doing then go write some code.
That was my plan, but it's always good to check first if there are some evident problems that were overlooked.
Konrad.
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