Suggestions: Instead of http://pypi.python.org/mirrors how about http://mirrors.pypi.python.org (or pypimirrors.python.org, etc) -- then the mirror list can be hosted separately, and the likelihood of both the mirrors and the main PyPI server being down are much lower. Admittedly, this makes it harder for other indexes to provide their own mirrors, and the location is just entirely magic. But it seems like a useful magic.
In the egg-info PEP: "They both add other files in the `EGG-INFO` or `.egg-info` directory, and create or modify `.pth` files. `pip` also creates one `.pth` file per installed package, which may lead to slow initialisation of Python." I don't believe this is the case. pip zip creates one .pth file for each zip file, but that's different. pip installs packages flat. Unless you use -e, which invokes setup.py develop, which I believe puts the path in easy-install.pth. Oh, you also use British English; "initialization"! I only notice that because my spell check is complaining about the quotation ;) As mentioned in another email, I think RECORD should hold relative paths (and PJE's "/" suggestion also of course seems reasonable). The paths should be relative to the .egg-info directory. "- get_egg_info(pkg_name) -> path or None Scans all site-packages directories and looks for all `pkg_name.egg-info` directories. Returns the directory path that contains a PKG-INFO that matches `pkg_name` for the `name` metadata. Notice that there should be at most one result. If more than one path matches the pkg_name, a DistutilsError is raised. If the directory is not found, returns None." Currently, if there are multiple paths that might be importable, whichever one is found first with sys.path is imported, and conflicts aren't really considered. raising DistutilsError seems like it changes this. " filename can be any value found in `distutils.sdist.EGG_INFO_FILES`." Is there any reason this should be restricted to those filenames? -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
