On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:32:55 -0800, "Sridhar Ratnakumar" <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote:
> I suggest that we check for valid metadata on the uploaded sdists at the > least. If you visit http://pypm.activestate.com/ - most failed packages > are due to the fact the sdist uploaded by the author misses certain files > such as README.txt (that is read by setup.py) or setup.py/PKG-INFO itself. That may be out of the scope of distutils. Not sure. CPAN does do checks and we've taken it upon ourselves to start writing something similar. Our target is to set up to run daily and package validate run on a server farm. It's located at : http://bitbucket.org/djlyon/pypi-package-testbot/ > Without such quality policing, I can't see how tools like pip/easy_install > could even install the package (let alone doing it in an user-friendly > way). It's a community issue, sure. And it affects everyone when something breaks because of some very minor fault. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
