[Pythonmac-SIG] PackageManager link broken?

[Jack Jansen]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 01:16 AM, Kevin Altis wrote:

> I just did a fresh install of MacPython-OSX-2.3-1.dmg on a new  
> PowerBook and
> then fired up PackageManager to get readline. I got an error dialog:
>
> """
> Cannot open
> http://www.python.org/packman/version-0.3/darwin-6.8- 
> Power_Macintosh.plist:
> HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> See MacPython Package Manager help page.
> """

It's fixed. And I've also (finally) added a link to Bob's packman  
database
to the package manager help.

The problem is that the darwin version changes with every MacOSX  
micro-release.
While in principle this could cause incompatibilities in practice it  
never
has (as far as I'm aware), so for a next version of PackMan we should
strip the darwin minor release number. Or maybe first try "darwin-6.8"
and if that fails "darwin-6".
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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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