[Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python - requirements

[Mark W. Alexander]

I think this is a good reason for leveraging the native package
manager for distutil-produced-archive-managed packages. You should
be able to query your package manager for the installed version
and find newer ones in the archive.

Mark Alexander
mwa at gate.net


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Michel Sanner wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:44:02 -0800
> From: Michel Sanner <sanner at scripps.edu>
> To: Doug Hellmann <doughellmann at home.com>,
>      Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com>
> Cc: Bruce Sass <bsass at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>,
>      Sean Reifschneider <jafo-pythonlist at tummy.com>,
>      Oleg Broytmann <phd at mail2.phd.pp.ru>,
>      Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu>,
>      Doug Hellmann <doughellmann at bigfoot.com>, python-list at python.org,
>      distutils-sig at python.org, efm at tummy.com
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Re: CPAN functionality for python - requirements
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I followed this discussion (probably not as much as I should have).
> We have setup a Python distribution site for the tools we have produced for
> computational biology. It is quite primitive but let's us distribute to "ready
> to go" packages as well as pre-compiled Python interpreters for some platforms
> to "non-wizard" users.
> 
> One issue that we are strugling with is versions of packages.Is there a
> "standard" way to deal with versions ? how do you plan to find out whether
> someone has a compatible version of any given package ?
> 
> -Michel
>