[Catalog-sig] Too much good stuff

[Juergen Hermann]

On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:46:50 -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>Good point.  Version and dependency tracking tend to be flamebait.
>The distutils sig almost went up in flames over a discussion on how to
>define version numbers. :-)

Don't track or resolve it automatically, but enable us to yell.

It would be nice though if a package could print an error msg after 
querying a central version database for a minimal needed version of a 
utility package (i.e. create a version query API).

Bye, J=FCrgen