On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Michael Crute <mcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: >>> Of course, this means writing code, etc., but I believe this is a reasonable >>> goal. I think if "we" (Catalog-SIG? PyPI maintainers?) committed to using >>> such an implementation (assuming it was of good quality) that we could find >>> people (probably not on this list) to write and maintain the code. People >>> have already rewritten PyPI a couple times, but no one knows what exactly to >>> *do* with the rewrite so they haven't gone anywhere. And PyPI is not a >>> particularly complicated application. I think we can set the bar high on >>> the implementation quality and that people will meet it, so long as they >>> know their effort won't be in vain. >> >> Out of curiosity : have you ever worked with the current implementation ? >> >> I have hard time to understand why some people say it's hard to work with it, >> I don't think its a valid argument. > > I briefly played with the current implementation and found it somewhat > difficult to work with. Part of the problem is that the code is dated and not > well tested. The other part of the problem is that there are too many > dependencies and replicating the environment required to run the official > code is somewhat painful. For my uses I really don't want to run postgres > just to serve a version of the cheeseshop. A project like chishop eliminates > many of these problems as it's main dependency is Django which is designed to > make setting up the application simple and allows you to chose what kind of > database you want from something very simple like sqlite all the way up to > something more robust like postgres.
Right, switching to something like SQLAlchemy would be better -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
