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diff --git a/Tools/versioncheck/README b/Tools/versioncheck/README deleted file mode 100644 index 1dd2eca..0000000 --- a/Tools/versioncheck/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -This is versioncheck 1.0, a first stab at automatic checking of versions of -Python extension packages installed on your system. - -The basic idea is that each package contains a _checkversion.py -somewhere, probably at the root level of the package. In addition, each -package maintainer makes a file available on the net, through ftp or -http, which contains the version number of the most recent distribution -and some readable text explaining the differences with previous -versions, where to download the package, etc. - -The checkversions.py script walks through the installed Python tree (or -through a tree of choice), and runs each _checkversion.py script. These -scripts retrieve the current-version file over the net, compares version -numbers and tells the user about new versions of packages available. - -A boilerplate for the _checkversion.py file can be found here. Replace -package name, version and the URL of the version-check file and put it in -your distribution. In stead of a single URL you can also specify a list -of URLs. Each of these will be checked in order until one is available, -this is handy for distributions that live in multiple places. Put the -primary distribution site (the most up-to-date site) before others. -The script is read and executed with exec(), not imported, and the current -directory is the checkversion directory, so be careful with globals, -importing, etc. - -The version-check file consists of an rfc822-style header followed by -plaintext. The only header field checked currently is -'Current-Version:', which should contain te current version and is -matched against the string contained in the _checkversion.py script. -The rest of the file is human-readable text and presented to the user if -there is a version mismatch. It should contain at the very least a URL -of either the current distribution or a webpage describing it. - -Pycheckversion.py is the module that does the actual checking of versions. -It should be fine where it is, it is imported by checkversion before anything -else is done, but if imports fail you may want to move it to somewhere -along sys.path. - - Jack Jansen, CWI, 23-Dec-97. - <jack@cwi.nl> - |