[Pythonmac-SIG] PackMan engine version 0.4

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 28, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> 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.

I think Python has a tarfile module that will even detect gzip (in a 
ghetto, but working way).  The other windows-blocking-issue that I know 
of is that it uses curl to download packages.

-bob