Richard Jones wrote: > Please fire away. I may have some time to work on this in the near future. > Current stuff I know about: > > - PEP for metadata 1.2 > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0345.html > (though this is not finished nor has it been commented on)
The most notable addition seems to be Requires. Would this be read from install_requires? It seems like this has to go in Setuptools (to generate the PKG-INFO) as well as PyPI (to consume it). Setuptools has the extra features, which could also be shown, probably more as Recommended than as Required. Setuptools doesn't allow for requirements like C libraries, or Python versions. It would be nice if it did (at least the Python versions). I don't know if Requires in the metadata will include those kinds of requirements? > - incorporate Ian Bicking's XML-RPC API > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2005-May/000634.html > - auto-generate download_urls for package uploads > - command-line tool to query pypi and fetch entries (is this necessary > given easy_install?) I think it's still useful; easy_install only works if you know what you are looking for. Maybe it could be integrated into easy_install... but it might be best if it was a stand-alone script for now, and maybe integrate into nest later. Better keyword searching support would be good too, especially through XML-RPC or some RESTish interface. E.g.: /pypi/packages/wsgi+application Gives you a list of everything with the wsgi and application keywords. I think Kevin worked around this, but he was having problems searching for multiple keywords as well. > - DOAP support > - better searching +2! A single search box on the front page would be most appreciated. > - tooltips for field labels > - change notification emails > - admin interface for user details editing Comments might be nice, but sadly require maintenance, for spam and content. A more constrained thing might be links to other packages, so you could see what else is Some other things: Download tracking would be nice. I know at least one person has been reluctant to move all his packages to the Cheese Shop because it didn't count downloads and SF did. And I hate SF downloading so so so much. Changing the template to match the new look would be nice, of course. I look forward to the improvements! -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list Catalog-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
