On 28 February 2013 08:31, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > OTOH, I currently make development snapshots of setuptools and other > projects available by dumping them in a directory that's used as an > external download URL. Replacing that would be a PITA because PyPI > only lets you upload and register new releases from distutils' command > line. Basically, I'd need to use a download link that pointed to a > "latest" URL that redirected to the final download.
Yup, and the down-side of distutils as the tool for talking to PyPI is, of course, the horrendous turn-around time trying to add features or fix bugs. I've advocated us having the upload/register/whatever functionality in a separate tool for a while, but that doesn't seem to have gained any traction. Of course issues around the complexity introduced by setup.py make it much harder. In the mean time I think Donald's suggestion for supporting development pre-releases is reasonable: > instead of (please replace with easy_install lingo here) > `pip install setuptools==setuptools-dev` please `pip install -e > http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/#egg=setuptools-dev` ? Richard _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
