[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010 (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Jul 22 03:31:18 CEST 2010

On 7/21/2010 6:21 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Thanks Tim !

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote: [..]

Several people outlined the recent heated discussion over the addition of a checkbox to the PyPI user-registration pages. Tarek has already undertaken to patch PyPI to move the checkbox back one step, allowing existing distutils users to register from the command line. Yes, so the problem goes away and we are conforming to the legal requirements. At the same time, Brett advised removing that functionality from distutils2 as signing up on a web page is no great hardship. We will remove/simplify the register command, and get rid of that part. In the meantime, to try to avoid this problem in the future, since quite a few projects depend on PyPI now, I would like to suggest that a PEP of the various protocols PyPI has, is created. We do have some documentation here and there about the XML-RPC interface, the HTTP interface, etc., but we should have a single document describing the PyPI APIs, and maybe adding an API version number, so it can evolve smoothly. This would also be helpful for the people that are writing their own PyPI software, and ensure that distutils2 can work out of the box with any PyPI server out there. Tarek

+1

Readers may not be aware that there is a current attempt to try to catalog and to some extent unify the different web presences that the Foundation maintains. This is why I am copying this message to Ethan Schoonover, who leads that effort.

PyPi will doubtless be an increasingly important part of that presence, so I hope it can be integrated with the rest somehow. I do not imagine that this will be an easy issue to resolve, but a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

regards Steve

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