[Python-Dev] Packaging documentation and packaging.pypi API (original) (raw)

Alexis Métaireau alexis at notmyidea.org
Wed Jun 20 18:57:32 CEST 2012

Le mer. 20 juin 2012 18:45:23 CEST, Paul Moore a écrit :

Thanks - as you say, it's not so much the actual problem as the principle of what the packaging API offers that matters here. Although it does make a good point - to what extent do the packaging APIs draw on existing experience like that of pip? Given that tools like pip are used widely to address real requirements, it would seem foolish to not draw on that experience in designing a stdlib API.

IIRC, pip relies nly onthe XML/RPC API to get information about the distributions from the cheeseshop. the code that's in packaging.pypi was built with the implementation in setuptools in mind, so we keep compatibility with setuptools "easy_install".

But this is for the internal implementation. You're right and I will have a deep look at what the API in pip looks like when it comes to download packages from PyPI.

That is, this leverages one question more on my side: was/is pip intended to be used as a library rather than as a tool / are there some people that are actually building tools on top of pip this way?

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