Offering a warning and accepting the known categories seems like a reasonable compromise. Is it an error if there are no known categories in the list?
Doug On Dec 26, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > > Doug Hellmann wrote: >> >> As a package owner/maintainer, I would much rather have a warning or >> error message from the server when I upload something with an unknown >> category. That way I can correct any typographical mistakes. If the >> server completely ignores the bad data, I don't have an easy way to >> realize something is wrong. >> > > A warning would be fine, as long as the server treats the other items. > An error would block the process. > > For example, if we have 2 pypi servers, one that deals with 1..n > categories, > one with A..Z, > we could have a package with such classifiers: > > classifiers = ['category 1', 'category A', 'category 2'] > > Each server could pick the categories it knows. > > Tarek > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/permissive- > trove-classification-tp14504481p14504721.html > Sent from the Python - catalog-sig mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
