On Thursday, December 15, 2016, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> > On Dec 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steve.do...@python.org');>> wrote: > > The "curated package sets" on PyPI idea sounds a bit like Steam's curator > lists, which I like to think of as Twitter for game reviews. You can follow > a curator to see their comments on particular games, and the most popular > curators have their comments appear on the actual listings too. > > Might be interesting to see how something like that worked for PyPI, > though the initial investment is pretty high. (It doesn't solve the > coherent bundle problem either, just the discovery of good libraries > problem.) > > > Theoretically we could allow people to not just select packages, but also > package specifiers for their “curated package set”, so instead of saying > “requests”, you could say “requests~=2.12” or “requests==2.12.2”. If we > really wanted to get slick we could even provide a requirements.txt file > format, and have people able to install the entire set by doing something > like: > > $ pip install -r https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/ > my-cool-set/requirements.txt > With version control? $ pip install -r https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/ my-cool-set/abcd123/requirements.txt <https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/requirements.txt> $ pip install -r https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/ my-cool-set/v0.0.1/requirements.txt <https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/requirements.txt> This would be a graph. JSONLD? #PEP426JSONLD: - https://www.google.com/search?q=pep426jsonld - https://github.com/pypa/interoperability-peps/issues/31 With JSONLD, we could merge SoftwarePackage metadata with SoftwarePackageCollection metadata (just throwing some types out there). A http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication is a http://schema.org/CreativeWork . http://schema.org/softwareVersion > > > — > Donald Stufft > >
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