Re: [Catalog-sig] Poll results

2009-12-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Martin v. Löwis wrote: The poll is now closed, with these results Allow ratings and comments on all packages (status quo) 237 Allow package owners to disallow comments (ratings unmodified). 139 Allow comments, but only send them to package owners (ratings unmodified). 33

[Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello As suggested here, then discussed at Distutils-SIG, I would like to propose the addition of two more fields for the upcoming Metadata 1.2 (PEP 345) that could be used at PyPI on projects pages. Repository-Browse-URL A string containing the URL for the package's browsable repository.

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: Any idea how to test rst so it renders properly. This rst displays just fine in moinmoin, so is there anything special about Pypi as far as rendering? You can try rendering it locally, with the function

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Any help on this would be welcomed. I took your setup.py, renamed the package, and uploaded it to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datahub_mvl What exactly is incorrect about this page? Regards, Martin ___ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
What exactly is incorrect about this page? nothing in yours... http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datahub_mvl but mine? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datahub/0.8.90dev Well, I used your setup.py literally, and just did python setup.py register. How did you get the release registered? Regards,

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Stephen Emslie
This looks a lot like a bug I opened against distutils: http://bugs.python.org/issue1923 here's the related post: http://markmail.org/message/us3aqqixgqmzv3tv It would be *fantastic* to finally tackle this problem. Stephen Emslie On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Martin v. Löwis

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
ps. I'm not sure why python setup.py register works but Or upload your PKG-INFO file (generated by distutils) here: PKG-INFO file: does not. setup.py register doesn't use the PKG-INFO file at all. ISTM that PKG-INFO files don't support ReST, period. Regards, Martin

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
That might be the difference then... I only did python setup.py register the first time and then I was just using the python setup.py sdist upload. python setup.py register python setup.py sdist upload Hmm. When I do sdist upload, it also works fine for me. Regards, Martin

Re: [Catalog-sig] rst not rendering

2009-12-02 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: That might be the difference then... I only did python setup.py register the first time and then I was just using the python setup.py sdist upload. python setup.py register python setup.py sdist upload Hmm. When I

Re: [Catalog-sig] Poll results

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Withers
Martin v. Löwis wrote: But I think that getting rid of the ratings is is also important. I don't think this is consensus. That's because the poll didn't really allow people to clearly express their views, which was the point of what Laura was saying. I, too, would like to see ratings be

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Withers
Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello As suggested here, then discussed at Distutils-SIG, I would like to propose the addition of two more fields for the upcoming Metadata 1.2 (PEP 345) that could be used at PyPI on projects pages. Repository-Browse-URL A string containing the URL for the package's

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Tarek Ziadé wrote: Hello As suggested here, then discussed at Distutils-SIG, I would like to propose the addition of two more fields for the upcoming Metadata 1.2 (PEP 345) that could be used at PyPI on projects pages. Repository-Browse-URL A string containing the URL for the

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Ian Bicking
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: The only controversial ones were Change-Log-URL and, at a push, Documentation-URL (although it was only you who even queried that ;-), so why have Repository-URL and Mailing-List-URL been abandoned? I didn't notice

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-12-02 11:43 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: While more structured meta-data is generally better than less, I wonder why we have to add URLs for all these things. The home page of a project will usually provide the URLs in some form already and if there is no home page, the long description

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I'd like to see how the PyPI UI works out. I can also imagine a more extensible setup, like: Project-URLs: documentation=http://myproject.org/docs/ repository=http://myproject.org/svn/ mailing list=http://googlegroups.com/groups/myproject I think this also points to an important

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I'd like to see how the PyPI UI works out.  I can also imagine a more extensible setup, like: Project-URLs: documentation=http://myproject.org/docs/     repository=http://myproject.org/svn/     mailing

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
But the project always wants to display the newest urls. Not at all. For some projects, it's more important to be conscious about documentation versions than for others. For example http://www.postgresql.org/docs/ asks you to make an explicit choice of version, and the URLs reflect that.

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tarek Ziadé wrote: 2009/12/2 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: [..] For Python, it somewhat unfortunate that there is a tradition of newest documentation. When the documentation format changed, many URLs broke - something that would not have happened when all URLs had been versioned.

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Terry Reedy
Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-12-02 11:43 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: While more structured meta-data is generally better than less, I wonder why we have to add URLs for all these things. The home page of a project will usually provide the URLs in some form already and if there is no home page, the

Re: [Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

2009-12-02 Thread Tarek Ziadé
2009/12/3 Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de: On the long_description front, the default behavior is to display the latest one That's not true. If there are multiple visible releases, no release is singled out. What ? the statement the default behavior is to display the latest one *is* true