Phillip J. Eby wrote:
You then publish your wrapping package as a subversion URL. This won't work for auto-discovery from PyPI unless your URL ends with Flup.egg or something like that, but you can always give it to EasyInstall as a URL, or build eggs and publish those.
Ian Bicking wrote:
Yes. Hmm... I suppose I could create something that redirected from a detectable URL to the actual URL. That's kind of hacky though. Only being able to list actual eggs decreases the utility of a custom index. Could it also look at title attributes or something?
It would be neat if you could download a working development copy with easy_install too. I'd like to encourage, or at least assist, people who want to interact with the code itself; and if you use a checkout you can at least use things like svn diff, even if you can't necessarily commit.
Ryan Tomayko wrote:
That's interesting. If you could point to subversion repositories from an index page, you could throw a page somewhere with a big list of project subversion URLs that use some kind of convention on naming...
<a href="http://example.com/svn/foo/trunk/">foo-devel</a> <a href="http://example2.com/svn/bar/trunk/">bar-devel</a>
That's going to be ambiguous though, right. How do you know those URLs are subversion repositories without having to go out and HEAD each resource or something. We can use the rel attribute: <a href="http://example.com/svn/foo/trunk/" rel="subversion"> foo-devel </a> From the HTML 4.01 specification, rel attribute [1]:
This attribute describes the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute. The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types.
From the HTML 4.01 specification, link-types [2]:
Authors may wish to define additional link types not described in this specification. If they do so, they should use a profile to cite the conventions used to define the link types. Please see the profile attribute of the HEAD element for more details.
[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-rel [2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links Ryan Tomayko rtomayko@gmail.com http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/