[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi? (original) (raw)

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Thu Oct 8 02:17:34 CEST 2009

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:29 +0100, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

Well yeah, and the only sane way I can think to handle this is to have a metadata file that gets uploaded with each distribution that covers all these things (and the other things that other people need) and then have the index (which would hopefully be PyPI on the whole) be queryable along the lines of "give me a download url for a distribution named X that is for Python 2.6, Win32, UCS4, PostGreSQL 8.5, BlagBlah"...

Exactly.

I'd like to see that and it sounds like a very simple and reasonable proposal.

One could say that much of the setuptools cloud came about because of the lack of the queryable download url. Setuptools does a lot of work here to 'work-around' the ommission on pypi of a package download url.

I'm just with you 100% on this...

David

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