On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Alex Clark <[email protected]> wrote: .. > Supporting custom trove classifiers would help a lot. In fact I have avoided > asking this question for years, because I knew someone would respond with > the exact comment above ;-). > > But if they go in the trove list for now, that makes my life easier because > then we can use the setuptools API to extract the version info and set the > appropriate fields in PloneSoftwareCenter (or at least that is my current > understanding).
In my knowledge, the only part where a custom classifier would not work is the main PyPI server, that checks the value when you register your metadata. A few years ago, my intent was that PSC could maintain extra classifiers, exactly for this use case. > Alternatively, if we just instruct folks to start using those classifiers, > we'd likely have to do something ugly to provide the same type of > functionality. > > Bottom line: we'd appreciate these being added until such time as custom > classifiers can be implemented. I picked "4.3" because it's the furthest > release on the radar from now. We don't expect to be asking again for > another 6 months at least, maybe longer. And I agree that it's "suboptimal" > to have to keep asking (and supporting an endless list). Not to mention any > "my framework too, please!!!" precedent this could potentially cause. > > > > Alex > > > > >> >> >> Cheers >> Tarek >> >> >>> Programming Language :: Python >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 2 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 2.3 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 3 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1 >>> Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2 >>> >>> -- >>> Marc-Andre Lemburg >>> eGenix.com >>> >>> Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 18 2011) >>>>>> >>>>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ >>> >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: >>> >>> >>> eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 >>> D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg >>> Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 >>> http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
