[Pythonmac-SIG] Package Manager idea, adding a URL scheme

Just van Rossum just at letterror.com
Thu Oct 2 04:15:49 EDT 2003


Bob Ippolito wrote:

> > I don't think that adding receipts to PackMan would be usefull,
> > unless the end-goal is pushing that code into distutils/the python
> > core.
> 
> Receipts are the only reasonable way to do uninstallation and would
> let us do version checking without running arbitrary Python code
> (which I really don't like, mixing metadata with code).

Same here/Mee too:
- I really dislike PackMan executing code from the .plist
- Receipts are the way to go

Just



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