On 6/29/2009 9:33 PM, David Lyon wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:19:25 -0700, "Sridhar Ratnakumar"
Just throwing out some ideas:
Wouldn't it be better for package authors to register their packages in
PYPI?
It already exists (be it in command line form). See:
http://docs.python.org/distutils/uploading.html
Yup, I'm aware of this. I was making a general comment that it is better
for package authors to register their packages in PyPI in such a way
that they have the 'Download URL' set properly to the actual tarball ..
instead of the SF download page (eg: see 'Pyro' in pypi). The
implication of this is that .. setuptools users need not rely much on
unreliable URL parsing methods.
Why don't you have a look at building in the Python Package Manager into
ActivePython. After all, ActivePerl has a package manager.. why can't
the same thing be available to python users?
I recall Trent mentioned a while ago in this list that we started
working on PyPM (Python Package Manager).
In fact, last week .. there was a first internal alpha of the tool which
at the moment can download and install packages from the internal binary
repository which has over 4000 package releases for mac/lin/win.
Although, some important packages (eg: scipy, numpy, pyqt, etc..) are
not yet in the repository .. and we need to deal with these
build/metadata issues before making a public release.
-srid
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