On Jun 23, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 04:10 PM 6/23/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > >> What form must an index take to be usable with setuptools? >> >> Is there anything documented how such a beast should be organized? >> What should it's pages should look like? Is there any special >> pattern setuptools (easy_install?) looks for to find pages with >> download links? >> Or does it search any link given? >> >> Also, I've noticed that if you gibe a location with find-links >> that has >> links to distributions for the thing you're looking for, it you can >> specify >> pretty much anything as an index. > > That's correct. If all your packages can just be linked from a > single page, that's more than enough to satisfy. > > However, if you want to give easy_install an alternate --index-url > to use in place of PyPI, it must meet the four simple requirements > described here: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2005-June/000654.html > > These are the only conditions that easy_install has for the > organization of an "index" in the PyPI sense. Note that they can > all be accomodated via static HTML pages.
That's a lot of screen scraping. :) It would be good to capture this as part of the documentation IMO > I'm considering adding XML-RPC support to easy_install in 0.7, > though. PyPI now has a nice XML-RPC API that is more responsive > than the web UI, and it supports case-insensitive partial match > searches, making it suitable for easy_install to query when a typed- > in name doesn't exactly match the spelling of a PyPI entry. I think that would be much better. I think it would also be helpful to have an option (-I) to disable index search. There will be cases where people don't want to put distributions in PyPI and won't want to have to implement an index server. The find-links mechanism seems to work fine most of the time. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
