Re: [Catalog-sig] Extending the package meta-data with more detailed download information

2009-11-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Yes, you could have distutils generate most of those fields, except for the URL and comment. What's the use case for these new data? Is this for files also hosted at PyPI, or for files hosted elsewhere? Who would use that information, and what for? Regards, Martin

Re: [Catalog-sig] Extending the package meta-data with more detailed download information

2009-11-23 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Yes, you could have distutils generate most of those fields, except for the URL and comment. What's the use case for these new data? Is this for files also hosted at PyPI, or for files hosted elsewhere? Who would use that information, and what for? As mentioned in

Re: [Catalog-sig] Extending the package meta-data with more detailed download information

2009-11-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
As mentioned in the original email, the use case is to have PyPI list download information for all distribution files of a package together with a set of details that allow automatic selection of a file for installation by a package manager tool. That's the description of the feature. I

Re: [Catalog-sig] Extending the package meta-data with more detailed download information

2009-11-23 Thread David Lyon
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:27:10 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: As mentioned in the original email, the use case is to have PyPI list download information for all distribution files of a package together with a set of details that allow automatic selection of