On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: > > 1/ Missing packages (eg: Twisted is not there) > > The Twisted guys do not upload their packages to PyPI. I think that's > a mistake, but it's hardly PyPI's fault. There is no law saying you > have to use CPAN either. > > For what it's worth, we don't upload because it's a big pain, and nobody > cares anyway. > It's a big pain because there are two ways to upload, and neither one works > for us. We can't use 'setup.py upload' because we don't use 'sdist' to > produce our tarball releases (although a discussion of why 'sdist' is > insufficient is a topic for another post). The other way to upload, > manually interacting with a form in a web browser, is annoying and as far as > I know it is hostile to automation.
Note that it wouldn't take long to override the upload command so it works independantly from any other *dist command. I could even add a --dist-file option to it so you can point an existing archive to push at PyPI, so running sdist or another *dist command wouldn't be mandatory anymore _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
