> You can also see a blog post I've made about that on > http://blog.notmyidea.org/pypi-on-couchdb.html > > Also, a CouchDB instance with all the data is available at > http://couchdb.notmyidea.org/pypi/ > > Bear in mind this *is* a work in progress. It should address the search > problems you're talking about, and provide a RESTful API to query. > > Next step is to work on a distutils2 client to query the couchdb instance.
FWIW, another copy of the PyPI metadata is available in FluidDB, which is also a rest-based database: http://www.fluidinfo.com/ http://fluiddb.fluidinfo.com/about/pypi-fluiddb-mirror http://fluiddb.fluidinfo.com/namespaces/loewis?returnNamespaces=True http://fluiddb.fluidinfo.com/namespaces/loewis/cheeseshop?returnTags=True > +1. eggs are unfortunately a hell to deal with when it comes to > metadata: we are forced to downlad the distributions and extract the > metadata using the setuptools egg_info command. It's your (catalog-sig reader's) choice that this is a hell to deal with: I offered to provide the metadata on PyPI, and the proposal was shot down. Had I been allowed to implement the feature, the data would have been available to everybody without downloading. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
