Hi Srid, On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:28:10 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote:
> .. what I was referring to is enabling the mindset: a simple > *self-contained* (i.e., without having to use an API to get metadata) > directory structure that can simply be mirrored by using existing tools > like rsync could *enable* developers interested in providing extending > packaging functionality such as testing, quality measurements, > documents, search, etc... to easily create such sites and maintain it. .. >> I think it's partly a problem that nobody has thunk the thought. They have. I'd say a lot of work has been done looking at the code. See: http://www.pycheesecake.org/ I've been working on running and extending that package testing. My tool is at: http://bitbucket.org/djlyon/pypi-package-testbot/ It's a very time consuming job to test all the packages. Taking at least a few hours a day. As I understand it pythoners got a little offended by the language that was used in it (liberal english - and importing of perl terms) Maybe the use of 'cheesy' fell out of fashion. I don't know. I've downloaded the package and run it against a few packages and it seems to be worthwhile. Some of the terms used in the output reports are pretty easy to change. >> think the idea of a site with automatically generated documentation >> for *every* package is interesting. We need to be looking at stuff like this sure. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
