From s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu  Mon Dec  3 22:30:07 2001
From: s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu (Suchandra Thapa)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:30:07 -0600
Subject: [Catalog-sig] suggestions?
Message-ID: <20011203163007.A1160@hepcat>

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    If any has had a chance to play around with ciphon I would love to
get some feedback on it.  Suggestions on things to add, bugs reports, etc.
Currently things I'm working on are(in no particular order):

readline support
ability to use multiple servers=20
ability to get information on packages
better package and server list format

If anyone has other suggestions, I would love to hear it.  Incidentally,
the tar ball for ciphon is available by anonymous ftp at ftp.community.tumm=
y.com
in /pub/python-packages

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From jpetrone@cnri.reston.va.us  Tue Dec 11 18:27:00 2001
From: jpetrone@cnri.reston.va.us (Jason Petrone)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:27:00 -0500
Subject: [Catalog-sig] My proof-of-concept package manager
Message-ID: <20011211182700.GL16531@cnri.reston.va.us>

A while ago I wrote a python package manager inspired by my 2 favorite package
systems: Debian's apt, and Open/FreeBSD's ports.  

I vaguely remember stopping work on it because I ran into some major problem, 
but now I forget what that was, and it seems to work well enough to ask for
some feedback.

Download at: http://www.demonseed.net/~jp/code/pkgutils-0.1a.tar.gz

A couple key features:
  o No central package archive.  This is my favorite part of ports.  If one
    exists later on, it will still work, but this allows it to be useful 
    *right now*.

  o Supports other install methods besides distutils.  Yea, I love distutils,
    but not everyone uses it, and I'm not going to build a distutils package
    if my module is only a single .py file.

  o Handles extraction from zip/tar/tgz

  o Attempts to do very basic management of local packages.  Including 
    versioning based on __version__ tags and file creation dates.  Removal
    should be supported later on as well.  

I'd like to hear what you think.  I'm getting tired of managing all my python
modules by hand!
    
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From s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu  Wed Dec 12 06:00:47 2001
From: s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu (Suchandra Thapa)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0600
Subject: [Catalog-sig] new version of ciphon
Message-ID: <20011212000047.F1234@hepcat>

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    I've finished another version of ciphon, basically the changes
are:

    readline support
    support for automatically updating the list of servers and packages
    support for configuring ciphon in ciphon
    better package and server formats
    a new info command to get information about a package
    ciphon cleans up after installing files

A tarball is available at ftp.community.tummy.com in /pub/python-packages

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From s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu  Wed Dec 12 06:03:28 2001
From: s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu (Suchandra Thapa)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:03:28 -0600
Subject: [Catalog-sig] new version of ciphon
In-Reply-To: <20011212000047.F1234@hepcat>; from s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:00:47AM -0600
References: <20011212000047.F1234@hepcat>
Message-ID: <20011212000328.G1234@hepcat>

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    Oh yes, I've also added an utility to help create specification files
in the utils directory.

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