I was thinking more about things where people can search for packages that need different versions of python, etc.; not so much for automation.
On 2006/06/23, at 6:05 PM, Serge Orlov wrote: > On 6/23/06, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was looking for some normal (hopefully, machine-readable) way to >> indicate it so that people can figure out the version of Python >> required before they download the package. > > I'm sure writing English text like "make sure you have python 2.4 > before downloading this package" is not abnormal :) How do you expect > to prevent users from downloading your package if they don't have > python your package needs? It could be useful if there was a tool to > silently download and install python, but I'm sure it is a pain to > code and support such a tool, so nobody was crazy enough to do it. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
