It would be great if you guys could update the pythonmac.org wiki with these comments.. the appropriate section is: http://pythonmac.org/wiki/NewPackageManager It's pretty well known that PackageManager is missing a lot of useful features, and we're trying to figure out what we need in the next version before we start writing it. -bob On Oct 30, 2003, at 7:30 PM, W.T. Bridgman wrote: > Tom, > > I second this. I'm in a similar situation with fast connections at > work and a slow one at home. > > I've tried PM a few times after it's initial release. One complaint > is that it doesn't report the size of the package so you can tell if > it's practical to update over a slow connection. I think I waited > quite a while for the documentation package to install. > > I often retrieve the disk images & tarballs at work for building at > home from sources. Also, I have root privileges on my home systems > but only sudo limited access at work. > > Tom > On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Tom Loredo wrote: > >> >> Hi folks- >> >> I love the package manager, but would like to raise the following >> issues (possible bug; feature requests): >> >> When I try to use PM at Bob I's pimp site, the list of packages is >> larger than the window. I can scroll down to see the bottom part of >> the list, but as soon as I release the scrollbar it immediately >> scrolls >> back up to the top of the list. Thus many of his packages are >> inaccessible. This is using MacPy2.3 on OS 10.2.6 on a G4 Quicksilver >> and on a G3 Powerbook. >> >> My G4 is at home with a dialup connection; my G3 I can bring to >> work with T3 access. Having one machine with a slow net connection >> is behind the following requests. >> >> First, I'd love to see package size information in the PM window. >> This way I can tell if it's realistic to download a package to >> my G4 over my dialup connection. >> >> Second, I'd love to see useful progress info on the download and >> installation. If I check "verbose," PM tries to produce this, >> but unfortuately the resulting text window update is too slow and >> I'll typically not see *any* of the progress lines until the >> download is complete, at which point the window happily shows >> me every status line from the start to 100%. >> >> Finally, I'd love for there to be a way to save a package locally >> in a way allowing it to be moved to another machine and installed >> via PM there. Perhaps I can just sync the site-packages >> directories on both machines, but I don't know if some of the >> packages have other side effects. Is this feasible? Ideally >> I'd like to grab the packages on my G3 at work, and install them >> on my G4 at home. I suppose I could do it directly with distutils, >> but it would be neat if PM could do this.
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