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

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Fri Oct 9 02:50:16 CEST 2009

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:57 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

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 think you two have missed my email to PJE. In summary: PyPI already does have mechanism for querying download URLs. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc It only lacks some more meta-data that would be required to match up the user's configuration with the one used in the uploaded URLs. And it would be handy to have a mechanism to just upload the URL data rather than the whole package. Looking at distutils' upload command, PyPI currently appears to only support uploads of the package file itself. Basically, most of the mechnisms are already there, they just need some extra care.

Maybe you're right. I'll look into it.

BTW: Who would I need to contact for the PyPI side to work out an uploadurl distutils command ?

pypi is on sourceforge... ask to become a developer I guess..

David

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