[Python-Dev] [Catalog-sig] egg_info in PyPI (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Sat Sep 18 23:09:35 CEST 2010

"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/

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list