[Distutils] PEP 345, PEP 376, PEP 386

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Brian Sutherland
<brian at vanguardistas.net> wrote:
>> And easy_install would have its own marker maybe, if the way it
>> installs stuff slighlty differs
>
> ok, seems reasonable:)

I'll work on that. I guess it's time to code the uninstall prototype,

>
> Perhaps the --installer option take a string (like "dpkg") and convert
> that to an md5 sum?
>

Mmm, or maybe drop the md5 completely, and go for a human readable name.

(distutils, dpkg, etc..)

The api would raise an error if the name is not in [A-Za-z0-9_\-]