At 05:58 PM 7/10/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >On Jul 10, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >... >> >>>2. The messages: >>> >>> Couldn't find index page for 'jimtest' (maybe misspelled?) >>> Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while) >>> >>> should be info messages, not warning messages. If they >>> remain warnings, and you fix the first problem, it will be >>> impossible to avoid the warnings without creating a PyPI >>> project or creating an index server, and I don't think it was >>> your intent to require either of these. I don't think a warning >>> should be issues for correct use of software. >> >>Here's the problem. Reducing everything to info messages means >>there's effectively no control over output detail. I generally use >>'warn()' for things that *may* reflect an error in input >>parameters. So, my take on the above is that although the >>"Scanning" message could become an info(), the previous one shouldn't. > >This means that one always has to use an index. In which case, what >is the point of find-links?
The point of --find-links is to provide links to unindexed packages. In 0.6b4, you will be able to use 'file:' URLs for a package index, by the way. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
