On Friday 16 November 2007, Jim Fulton wrote:
Something is broken here and it needs to be fixed.
Well, the easiest solution would be to remove those misbehaving distributions from the cheeseshop. However, I think we kid ourselves if we think that the cheeseshop will always provide a stable set by default. This would be like saying that all packages from all versions of one Linux distribution are in one repository and nothing will break. I can even think of a trivial example. Let's say package A works only with Python 2.x and package B works only with Python 3.0a. The supported Python versions are not part of the meta-data of a package. As a naive user, I want to use both, but can't. Since I do not have time to think of another example involving only Python 2.x right now, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to think of one. ;-) (Oh, did I hate those sentences in my Physics texts!) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training