On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:13:43AM -0400, David Lyon wrote:
Hi Brian,
Hi David,
It sounds interesting. I might be interested in helping.
Great :)
What I would like to do is make a test script to download all the packages off pypi and build them under multiple platforms.
Basically, I want to make some tests that will try to install "everything" and then deinstall "everything" and see what happens.
I'm not sure if this has ever been done.. but it might provide some interesting test results..
It think that could give some good information, especially about dependency issues, and perhaps file conflicts.
Maybe it's similar...
Unfortunately I don't think it's similar enough to fold these 2 projects into one. I'm basically trying to re-make pypi (or a list of links to pypi) from a Debian repository. I.e something that looks like this: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ Also, while I will probably be downloading most of the tarballs, I definitely won't be installing anything.
On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:00:41 +0200, Brian Sutherland <brian@vanguardistas.net> wrote:
Hi,
It may seem like a backwards way of doing things, but I have a need for a utility that can maintain a python package index mirror of a Debian repository.
The basic idea is to extract the tarballs of Python packages from the Debian repository and rename them to the original setuptools name. It should also create a buildout-compatible versions file of the versions in the repository.
My current implementation idea is to unpack the tarball and use the egg-metadata to figure out what the "egg" name of the tarball should be.
Does such a tool exists? If not, I'll probably start working on one on svn.zope.org Real Soon Now (TM). Comments, suggestions much appreciated!
-- Brian Sutherland