At 11:47 PM 9/11/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 03:50 PM 9/11/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> 2009/9/11 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>:
>> >
>> > The attribute already exists: rel="download" and rel="homepage"; if
>> > there's
>> > no 'rel' it's from the description.
>> >
>> > I'm rather surprised you don't know these things already, since they're
>> > all
>> > rather prominently documented as part of easy_install's "index API"
>> > here:
>> >
>> > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#package-index-api
>>
>> Because that's setuptools documentation, not PyPI's.
>
> Which is why I was (and am still) surprised you haven't read it.
I don't know who told you I didn't read it. (unless you're making a
joke of course ;) )
You earlier stated that easy_install "might try to visit urls the
author just put there in his description text". This is not a
statement of someone who has read and understood EasyInstall's documentation.
That's a "PEAK Developer center" website page that was not
updated for years AFAIK.
It's also an SVN-controlled text file, EasyInstall.txt, which is
found in the root of both the setuptools trunk and branch - a file
that is automatically updated on the wiki whenever an 0.6 branch
release is cut -- as you would know if you'd read the release.sh
script before it was deleted from your fork of setuptools.
I have read that page many times, but that
doesn't means that
PyPI still complies exactly like what this page says.
My comments have not been about PyPI; they've been about incorrect
statements made regarding the behavior of easy_install. That being
said, you didn't ask Martin whether PyPI still complied with that
API, implying that you were entirely unaware of it.
(and nothing says so)
That's not actually true, either; see:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopDev
where you will find a link to the PEAK page... and a history that
indicates Martin has at least read the page once or twice. ;-) (At
any rate, he's edited it before.)
I hope you're OK if I copy (and add the missing bits) this text
section into distutils
documentation in a PyPI page ?
I suspect that what you actually want is to document the API provided
by PyPI, rather than the API expected by easy_install, but if it
helps you as a starting point, go for it.
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