"Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> writes: >> pypiserver is a minimal PyPI compatible server. It can be used to serve >> a set of packages and eggs to easy_install or pip. > > I wonder why it needs to be a specialized server. The PyPI API is > designed deliberately to avoid the need for custom servers; any > web server capable of serving static pages (including SimpleHTTPServer) > is capable of serving packages to easy_install or pip.
IMHO it's much easier to start my pypiserver package, which requires near zero configuration than running e.g. apache in order to serve a package index (especially when python is already installed on the machine). SimpleHTTPServer may work with something like http://pypi.python.org/pypi/basketweaver, but then you'll have to periodically update the index. pypiserver does that on the fly. Besides I may decide to implement some features like automatic proxying that are not possible to do with apache serving a set of static files. -- Cheers Ralf _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
