On Jul 22, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Jim Fulton schrieb: >> On Jul 22, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>>>> If people do misspell a package name when invoking easy_install, >>>>> they get the feature that you consider of no value. >>>> >>>> That is not correct. Not all packages are in PyPI. Using a >>>> package that >>>> isn't in PyPI will trigger a fetch of that page. >>> >>> I don't understand. What page is fetched if the package is not in >>> PyPI? >> >> We have lots of packages that aren't in PyPI. Some of them aren't >> ready >> for PyPI or are not of general interest. Some are proprietary. > > Ah, ok. So I stand to my original statement (the one you classified > as incorrect): *If* I do misspell a package name, *then* setuptools > will correct the spelling if the index page is available.
Your full original statement was: On Jul 21, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > IIUC, it won't slow down setuptools, as setuptools looks at it only > if it cannot find the real package page due to a misspelling. So > as long as everything is spelled correctly, it should not provide > any slowdown. > > If people do misspell a package name when invoking easy_install, > they get the feature that you consider of no value. I was referring to the part about not slowing things down when people didn't misspell. But it looks like I was mistaken. It was my understanding that setuptools always checked index/ when it couldn't find index/package_name/, but as Phillip pointed out, if it finds a package via find links, it won't look at index/. Basic tests seem to confirm this. >>> Would people prefer if the index >>> was always correct (and perhaps somewhat slow), or would they prefer >>> instead that it is super-efficient (and somewhat out-of-date)? >> >> Where somewhat out of date could be a matter of seconds. > > And where somewhat slower could be "practically not noticable". I wasn't arguing about speed. I agree that when PyPI is working well, the difference between the speed of the dynamic page and the speed of a static page wouldn't be noticeable. 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 - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
