Richard Jones wrote: >>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).
I'd trust magic numbers first. But it doesn't matter -- this is all a client issue, not a PyPI issue. In general I think if the client can do it, then the client should do it. >>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 advocating package_urls point to a SVN repository, so that you can install from the svn trunk in addition to formal releases. >>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. It's also quite possibly fast enough to simply use OR and LIKE; I don't know if the data is large enough that it's an issue. I mean, we're just now moving off CGI, right... I think full text indexing is a relatively fine point of optimization in comparison ;) -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
