On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: > Here at the DZUG conference, we are planning to integrate explicit access to > setuptools metadata to the package index. > > The current idea is to store the contents of the egg_info directory, > giving remote access to specific files. By default, PyPI will extract, > per release, data from the egg that may get uploaded (using the first > one if multiple eggs get uploaded). If no egg gets uploaded, a VM > based build service will generate it from a source distributions. > Tools like setuptools or distribute could also directly upload this > information, e.g. as part of the register command. > > Any opinions?
Having that information, especially dependency information would allow much better package assembly than we have now. So an enthusiastic +1. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
