On 18.04.2005, at 18:09, Dethe Elza wrote:
new installer process. Encouraging vendors to add metadata to their distutils scripts for a) version, and b) a URL to check for updates, would be
Most do, but the data is not kept in the installation.
useful. A good place to start would be to build a tool which goes through python installed libraries and attempts to determine the version of each,
I would say that's impossible. One installation unit can contain any number of modules and packages, and one package can contain the contents of more than one installation unit.
couldn't be determined). Another low-tech solution would be to start a wiki page with known latest versions, urls to download the latest versions, and
Something better already exists, the Python Package Index. Unfortunately many packages are not in it, and others are listed with outdated versions.
That of course points to the major problem of all attempts at handling Python packages: acceptance. There even still packages around that don't use distutils.
Konrad.
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