"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> So you are fine with publishing "slightly incorrect" metadata at PyPI >> ? I am not. > > I really have no intuition for in how many cases the data will be > incorrect. However, if users find that the data is incorrect for > specific package, they ought to complain to the maintainer. > >> I don't understand the rational behind providing flawed data at PyPI. >> I am -1 on that. > > -1 sounds much better than vetoing it :-) Taking the votes together, > I currently arrive at > > Tarek -1 > Michael -1 (?) > Jannis -1 (?)
> Jim +1 > Thomas +1 > > Any other opinions? -1 as well. The formats and file-names are just a complete mess and not all packages on PyPI are available as eggs or compatible to setuptools. I think the information from PEP 345 which is already made available via the XML-RPC .release_data() interface is sufficient for most cases. In those cases where it is not, we should extend the meta data. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/ http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc It may be worthwhile providing the same sort of information as static PKG-INFO file alongside the /simple index entries as well (e.g. via a link on the package page), to make it possible to extract the meta information without having to use the RPC mechanism and making use of the mirror infrastructure. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0390/ PS: Could you put your DZUG talk up online somewhere. It includes some very valuable information on the various available APIs that is difficult to find elswhere. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 18 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
