Where to download bugfix for email Module?

Sheila King usenet at thinkspot.net
Sun Mar 17 17:52:30 EST 2002


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:55:26 +0300, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in
comp.lang.python in article
<mailman.1016402254.12742.python-list at python.org>:

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:36:10AM -0800, Sheila King wrote:
> > (1) stability. Can I expect this latest code to be stable? Somehow I would
> > think that would be questionable with late releases?
> 
>    No, you have to learn development history (CVS is *developer's* tool!)
> and checkout latest stable release.

Arggh! I sorta wanna do developer-type things, but I'm not sure I want to
be a *real* developer. Well, I'll let the idea warm up over time...

>    I heard that Brry is going to release an archive of a stable version...
> don't know *when*. I suspect the usual time - Real Soon :)

LOL.

> 
> > (2) distribution. If I want to distribute code that I'm developing, and I
> > use the latest CVS releases to develop my code, such that my code relies on
> > these CVS releases, how do I distribute code to others who are running the
> > standard 2.2 install?
> 
>    The simplest (though not the best) solution would be to distribute a
> copy of the email package with your code. You know, Python inserts the path
> to your application in the beginning of sys.path, so upon "import email"
> your copy of the package will be imported, and not standard package.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Out of curiousity...what is the *best* (or better) method???

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