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

2009-12-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
If you don't change this manually, it'll display the latest and hide the others, everytime you register and upload a release at PyPI. As, most projects do. Distribute was just an example. Alternatively, you can also uncheck the auto-hide box on the package, I would agree that auto-hide is

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

2009-12-03 Thread Ian Bicking
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:21 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

2009-12-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I think it would be generally useful if old releases included a warning in the PyPI interface (some prominent box that said This is an old release! The newest release is a href=X.YX.Y/a). They do already. It's actually pretty easy to get unintentionally to an old release via search

[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] 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