On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2014, at 21:36, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > I just uploaded a new pyramid_sqlalchemy package to PyPI. Looking at the > distribution page at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyramid_sqlalchemy PyPI is > not rendering ReST. I can’t figure out why though: according to both “python > setup.py check” and "python setup.py --long-description | rst2html-2.7.py > > /dev/null” there are no ReST syntax errors in me description. Is there any > way to see why PyPI is not rendering my ReST? > > > I filed a PyPI issue about this some time before July 2012. > > It bothers me that I can't seem to find the issue listed on the > current PyPI issues page: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues . It > also disturbs me that I can't seem to find the issue on the old > SourceForge page either: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypi/ . > > > That is somewhat worrying. I created a new ticket for this: > https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issue/161/rest-formatting-fails-and-there-is-no-way > > > 3) The user should have some way of running the conversion locally (as > a check), using the same rules as PyPI, so the user can be assured in > advance that the conversion will be successful when interacting with > the real PyPI. > > > I don’t believe that is a viable approach. I suspect there is a reasonable > risk that environment changes between PyPI and your local system, for > example environment settings or available locals, and using different > versions of packages such as docutils will lead to incorrect results. There > really is no substitute for PyPI itself reporting errors it finds.
I was suggesting this in addition to PyPI reporting errors and not as a substitute. It shouldn't be necessary to interact with a remote service when developing locally to validate and check for errors. --Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
