[Pythonmac-SIG] PackMan engine version 0.4

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Jack,

On Feb 28, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> Folks,
> I've started on a new version of pimp, the engine underlying Package 
> Manager. The main thing I want to fix is how the default database is 
> located: currently the databases are for specific versions of the 
> darwin kernel, i.e. OSX 10.3, 10.3.1 and 10.3.2 all get a different 
> database. I'm going to put in a fallback scheme where it first tries a 
> database for the specific OS version, if that fails it tries a more 
> general one, etc. The other thing I want to fix is to differentiate 
> between Apple-installed MacPython on Panther and user-installed 
> MacPython on Panther (which will use the same database as MacPython on 
> Jaguar).
>
> I'm not going to do a complete overhaul of pimp, but if there are 
> low-level features you would like to see included: now is the time to 
> ask for them and I'll see if I can include them.

Since you're asking... <G> A version of the UnZip handler implemented 
in pure Python would be very nice - it's the only thing that keeps 
PackMan on Windows from being possible. (I know, I said I would do this 
eventually but haven't had time...) If you don't have time for this, I 
will get to it eventually, but probably not for a while unfortunately.

Thanks,

Kevin