In fact, that's very close to what I needed. The repo or source would have version, target audience, and few other parameters. Thanks a zillion. I will take it up from here. I'll post you guys the complete version sometime in the future when it's ready. Cheers! Farhan
On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, 06:26 Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > On 09/07/2017 12:49 AM, devN wrote: > > Hi, > > I am newbie in python. I wrote a module which is meant to be run across > > couple of unix OS variants (redhat, debian, bsd and solaris). The module > is > > updated frequently and new features added. > > > ... > > The above code was an alpha and there could be further optimizations > which > > I request you to overlook. > > My requirement is, I have an agent copied in all the UNIX variants and I > > have done that only once and dont want to do it again (too many machines > > and no possibility of ansible or chef implementation). The agent > currently > > loads the module locally but I need to let all clients know that the > module > > is updated with new features, but really can't. > > So I thought to expose the module as plain text over http from a remote > > apache container. Is there any way to load the module from remote just as > > simple as import statement (without using urllib or wget piped to > python)? > > This could also mean does PYTHONPATH support http/ftp? > > > > Thanks > > We had a bit of a discussion not too long ago about the general topic. > You can search in the list archive for "How to deploy seamless script > updates to your clients" > > You've left a situation that isn't really very flexible since you say > you don't want to copy the agent again. Nonetheless, I'll point you to > a little bit of fiddling I did on this topic that you could just chew on > and see if it makes any sense. It's not really "newbie" code. The > basic idea is that you have a known location which contains a file with > information about available releases; the module has a function a > participating script can call to find out if it has a new version > available. > > Link to my pointer to this: > https://www.mail-archive.com/tutor@python.org/msg76681.html > > > The rest of the discussion has some other good ideas in it too (a > version control server may be able to provide a kind of solution). > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
