Robert Kern wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>I don't know enough about Portage to answer that question. I do know >>>any package manager which made it into the standard distribution would >>>need to work for at least the big three platforms (Windows/Mac/*nix) :) >> >> >> Being written in python - and hopefully integrated into Distutils - >> why shouldn't it work on any platform that Python worked on? > > Assumptions about directory structures, and the like.
That is already taken care by the distutils. The various PEPs already describe a simple method how to store package metadata, and I will try to follow these standards as close as possible. Of course, the PyPI would have to be adapted for that. > IIRC, Portage was > written for the Gentoo project, so it could assume that it was > installing stuff to a Gentoo system. Package management systems have a > distressing habit of infecting their *architecture* with these > assumptions. It makes adapting them difficult. > Also, Portage needs to execute subprocesses, something which is > notoriously platform dependent. 2.4's subprocess module should probably > be used here, but I don't think Portage does, yet. OTOH, it's Gentoo, so > it wouldn't surprise me, either. :-) That's right, but I would just draw the line at Python's standard library. What is possible with it, is done, what not, is left out. regards, Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
