Hi Richard, all, somewhere deep in the threads i mentioned i wrote a little "cleanpypi.py" script which takes a project name as an argument and then goes to pypi.python.org and removes all homepage/download metadata entries for this project. This sanitizes/speeds up installation because pip/easy_install don't need to crawl them anymore. I just did this for three of my projects, (pytest, tox and py) and it seems to work fine.
Now before i release this as a tool, i wonder: Is it a good idea to remove download/homepage entries? Is there any current machine use (other than the dreaded crawling) for the homepage/download_url per-release metadata fields? For humans the homepage link is nicely discoverable if the long-description doesn't mention it prominently. But i think there also is a "project url" or "bugtrack url" for a project so maybe those could be used to reference these important pages? (i am a bit confused on the exact meaning of those urls, btw). Should we maybe stop advertising "homepage" and "download_url" and instead see to extend project-url/bugtrackurl to be used and shown nicely? The latter are independent of releases which i think makes sense - what use are old probably unreachable/borked homepages anyway. And it's also not too bad having to go once to pypi.python.org to set it, usually it seldomly changes. best, holger _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
