On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:53:17 -0600, Brad Allen <bradallen...@gmail.com> wrote: > During that conversation Walker mentioned that he thought that Java's > Maven packaging system had been really successful with the idea of > having a metadata file stored outside each package. That made it > easier for the metadata format to evolve; there is no need change > every package in a repository every time the metadata format is > improved. It also allows convenient inspection of dependencies between > packages without having to download/decompress those packages. (Maven > also stores a copy of the metadata inside the package, but the > authoritative/complete copy is considered the one outside the > package).
So too in python and pypi. I have used it and it works fine. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc?action=show&redirect=CheeseShopXmlRpc The problem is not that the functionality doesn't exist, just that users are expected to do an xmlrpc call to get it... (more logical would be to have a pypi module) David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
