April 15, 2009
6:50 a.m.
The issue I need to address is to cooperate with other packaging systems. I'm using Fedora, which is rpm/yum based. A new python module is announced, I'd like to easy_install it. The official fedora package may be delayed by weeks. So I easy_install. But when the fedora update comes, they may conflict.
Just as a FYI, yolk (http://tools.assembla.com/yolk/) has a plugin system to search for Python packages installed by other tools than distutils/setuptools. For example it bundles "yolk-portage", that shows if a package was installed by Gentoo's Portage. http://tools.assembla.com/yolk/browser/trunk/examples/plugins Cheers, Jannis