Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Talin wrote: >> Agreed - I don't have any problems with Cheeseshop as it exists today. > > I think a good search feature is essential -- a big code repository > is only as useful to the degree that its contents are accessible. > > I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but i think the site could > really use improved search and navigation. It used to have a search > form that was (in my opinion) broken enough to be misleading, and now > the search form appears to be gone. The Google-based form feels like > a stopgap measure rather than a proper search. > > Right now, the site doesn't provide an obvious, direct way to get > to a package *even if you know the exact name of the package*.
I see. Maybe I have no problem because I never actually use the *web* interface to Cheeseshop. I just say "easy_install mercurial" or whatever, and everything just works - unless of course, the package you are trying to install is wxwidgets or psycopg2 or openldap, or any others of a bunch I could name, in which case the download works fine by the installation just fails. :( - Talin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
