On 25 May 2000, M.-A. Lemburg said:
FYI, I'm going to package the mx stuff in 3-4 ZIP archives:
1. base (this one contains the __init__.py file and always has to be installed) 2. crypto (optional add-in with mx.Crypto) 3. mx-ug (subpackages only available to mx User Group members) 4. commercial (things like mx.ODBC and some other DB related subpackages)
There will no longer be separate mxTools, mxTextTools, mxDateTime, etc. packages.
Do you mean "package" as in a directory with an __init__.py file, or as in something others download, build, and install?
Umm, what's hairy about pre- and post-install code ? Pretty much all RPM-like archives provide this feature in some way or another.
See my previous post: it's not the code that's hairy, it's getting it from the developer to the installer correctly. Greg -- Greg Ward - "always the quiet one" gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I have a VISION! It's a RANCID double-FISHWICH on an ENRICHED BUN!!