[Pythonmac-SIG] Package installation

[Dethe Elza]

On 18-Apr-05, at 8:12 AM, konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:

> No. The problem I have with it is not installation, but version 
> management. Finding out what versions of what packages are installed 
> is not straightforward.

If the problem is version management, the solution may not be to build 
a new installer process.  Encouraging vendors to add metadata to their 
distutils scripts for a) version, and b) a URL to check for updates, 
would be useful.  A good place to start would be to build a tool which 
goes through python installed libraries and attempts to determine the 
version of each, reporting back with all the versions (and a list of 
libraries for which version couldn't be determined).  Another low-tech 
solution would be to start a wiki page with known latest versions, urls 
to download the latest versions, and the above script.  No reinvention 
of the wheel needed, just leveraging what we already have in a 
different way.

--Dethe

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