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

Just van Rossum just at letterror.com
Fri Oct 3 03:57:57 EDT 2003


Jack Jansen wrote:

> And Just said:
> > - I really dislike PackMan executing code from the .plist
> 
> I can't think of any other way to make things truly extensible.

I don't think PackMan needs to be extensible to such an extent. Am I
right that the current Python snippets only do version checks? Receipts
would work just as well, provided we limit version checking to packages
installed through PackMan. I think that's a reasonable constraint.

Just



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