At 10:22 10/12/98 -0500, Fred L. Drake wrote:

Konrad Hinsen writes:

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- Package installation via FTP/HTTP from a server. That may seem like a minor convenience, but once you realize how many system administrators don't know how to use FTP, it gains importance...

This, in particular, seems to indicate that an additional script is installed along with Python. What's been discussed so far is how to build/install an unpacked distribution.

I think this indicates a 'design bug'. It shouldn't be necessary to unpack anything. Python can read data straight out of ZIP/Tar files. I mean: it can't at the moment, but it is on the TODO list. This requires some support from Python itself, but I feel Guido will be wll disposed to being able to access a package which is packed in an archive. [I.e. 'import' directly from the archive, _without_ unpacking it] This is also on the Interscript TODO list: interscript can already read files by FTP, HTTP, as well as from the local file system, but it cannot read files from archives. But the modules required to do this seem to be part of the standard distribution already. ------------------------------------------------------- John Skaller email: skaller@maxtal.com.au http://www.maxtal.com.au/~skaller phone: 61-2-96600850 snail: 10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia