> On Dec 15, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > >> On Dec 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org >> <mailto: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 > <https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/requirements.txt>
Can't people already do this by publishing a package that just depends on their whole 'package set'? -glyph
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