[Catalog-sig] Package/Module/Recipe Versioning, Aggregation and Distrobution

[Chris Barker]

catalog-sig at claytonbrown.net wrote:
> I have been developing a bootstrap loader to enable module/package & python interpretor versioning/specification at time of import within a script.
> This is primarily to encourage code re-use/portablility (satisfying dependancies on multiple machines & platforms), and allow revision control and coexistence of packages, a particular weak point of python in my experience (I could be just doing things wrong). I am interested now in how such versioned packages could be agregated and made avaliable through a centralised service such as PyPi/CPAN, and as to wether such functionality described below will be a spanner in the works for distrobution techniques.

Who sent this note? There has been discussion recently on the 
wxPython-users list about how to support versioning of wxPython. I'd 
love to hear what you've worked out. And yes, I agree this is a real 
week point in Python that would be nice to address Python-wide, rather 
than each package developer coming up with their own scheme.

-Chris



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