Fwd: PEP 314 - requirements for Python itself

[Mark Nottingham]

I was thinking more about things where people can search for packages  
that need different versions of python, etc.; not so much for  
automation.

On 2006/06/23, at 6:05 PM, Serge Orlov wrote:

> On 6/23/06, Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net> wrote:
>> I was looking for some normal (hopefully, machine-readable) way to
>> indicate it so that people can figure out the version of Python
>> required before they download the package.
>
> I'm sure writing English text like "make sure you have python 2.4
> before downloading this package" is not abnormal :) How do you expect
> to prevent users from downloading your package if they don't have
> python your package needs? It could be useful if there was a tool to
> silently download and install python, but I'm sure it is a pain to
> code and support such a tool, so nobody was crazy enough to do it.


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