Jack Jansen wrote:

Could we add a field that would allow for the functionality that is now in the (very little known) checkversion.py script?

Doesn't the Version field have this information ?

I think that it would be good enough if the metadata file contained the URL where the current metadata file is stored. What checkversion would then do is run through your Python installation looking for metadata files, and for each one found it would retrieve the current version of that file over the net. If the version number in the net-based file was higher than the one in the file on your disk it would tell you there's a new version of the package available (and probably offer to download it, etc).

Nice idea -- perhaps we could integrate this using the warning framework and using a special Python command line option to trigger the check version testing... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/