On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> As suggested in Catalog-SIG by some people, I would like to propose > >> the addition of three more fields for 1.2: > >> > >> "Repository-URL" > >> A string containing the URL for the package's repository. > >> Example: > >> http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/ > > > > I like this in concept, but it's a bit vague as just a URL. What kind of > > repository is it? Sniffing is possible, but doesn't work that well. For > > pip I require something like hg+http://... (with exceptions for schemes > that > > are self-describing, like svn: and git:). > > I didn't think that Pip would use this field to do some automatic process, > I think the use case was to simply display that url at PyPI. > > OTHO, Repository-Browse-URL already plays that role, so it would be > interesting to > provide in "Repository-URL", urls that could be processed by installers. > > Do you have a particular use case in mind ? I don't really. There is an active use case for links like: http://repo-location/MyPackage/trunk#egg=MyPackage-dev which are used to get the dev version. These links should go to a svn index (which both easy_install and pip understand specifically) or to some automatically-generated tarball (which I believe most of the other VCSs generate through their popular frontends, e.g., http://bitbucket.org/ianb/webob/get/tip.zip). If something more like that was added (more like Trunk-URL), that would be genuinely useful. Barring that, I'd recommend removing the Repository-URL field from the recommendation until we have a clearer use case. Right now, the better use case would be a field giving the checkout command, e.g.,: Repository-Checkout: hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ianb/webob But I don't think that is particularly useful, only that it is more useful than Repository-URL. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker
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