[Python-Dev] setuptools: past, present, future (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 09:41:19 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 12:22 AM 4/22/2006 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:

Why can't you remove the heuristic and screen-scrape info-search code from the easyinstall client and run one spider that would check new/revised PyPI entries, search for missing info, insert it into PyPI when found (and mark the entry eggified), or email the package author or a human search volunteer if it does not find enough? I actually considered that at one point. After all, I certainly have the technology. However, I didn't consider it for more than 10 seconds or so. Package authors have no reason to listen to some random guy with a bot -- but they do have reasons to listen to their users, both actual and potential.

I'm not sure that's what Terry meant - I took it to mean make the spider part of PyPI itself.

So, when you do a PyPI upload, PyPI's spider is triggered, trawls through whatever was uploaded, and adds the results of the search to the PyPI entry for later use by easy_install (e.g under a "Easy Install Info" section - or possibly even a separate page).

If there are any problems, PyPI emails the person responsible for the package upload. So any problem reports wouldn't be coming from some random guy with a bot, they'd be coming from PyPI itself.

Then all the heuristics and screen-scraping would be server-side - all easy_install would have to do is look at the meta-data provided by the PyPI spider.

Cheers, Nick.

P.S. I still prefer Py-pee-eye to Cheeseshop. The old name makes even more sense if Phillip's heuristic scan gets added :)

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