On Wed, 25 May 2005 04:36 pm, Ian Bicking wrote: > The sdist type does not indicate what kind of archive is used -- most > notable, both zip and tar are possible. (Does sdist create zip files > on its own?)
As it turns out, this is the case. I didn't realise it until someone got all
hot under the collar about the unix-centric PyPI... no, I'm getting
sidetracked here. Anyway, yes, on Windows sdists are ZIP files. You can force
sdist to produce a particular format with the --format switch.
> However, I think the client can determine the proper way
> to unpack the file after downloading; this aspect of files is
> self-describing.
The correct meta-type should be supplied to the client too (by Apache, the
file server).
> An svn trunk is not a package file. However, it is largely equivalent
> to an sdist file, though it must be downloaded in a different way;
> actually performing the download is a client concern, so it doesn't
> really effect this.
Are you advocating that release_files somehow point to SVN repos? That doesn't
sound right, so I'll presume I've misunderstood you :)
> I'm a little soft on these, since I don't know if specifiers and the
> necessary metadata is really ready:
>
> providing_packages(specifier):
> A list of (name, version) from release_provides. E.g.,
> providing_packages('PageTemplate>=1.0') == [('zpt', '1.0')]. This
> will only return non-hidden packages.
>
> requiring_packages(specifier):
> A list of (name, version) from release_requires.
There's no code to actually perform this function, but the meta-data
capability is there. We probably won't see much in the way of this stuff
until Python2.5 becomes widespread in use (since additions to the meta-data
require releases of Python).
> Search should be available with a single field, that searches all of
> package name, summary, description/description_html, keywords. This
> should be on the front page.
A laudable goal. TSearch2 might be able to do this --- I don't know enough
about it. I've recently added Xapian support to Roundup --- and it's really,
really easy to use.
Richard
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