On Jul 10, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 05:58 PM 7/10/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
On Jul 10, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: ...
2. The messages:
Couldn't find index page for 'jimtest' (maybe misspelled?) Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
should be info messages, not warning messages. If they remain warnings, and you fix the first problem, it will be impossible to avoid the warnings without creating a PyPI project or creating an index server, and I don't think it was your intent to require either of these. I don't think a warning should be issues for correct use of software.
Here's the problem. Reducing everything to info messages means there's effectively no control over output detail. I generally use 'warn()' for things that *may* reflect an error in input parameters. So, my take on the above is that although the "Scanning" message could become an info(), the previous one shouldn't.
This means that one always has to use an index. In which case, what is the point of find-links?
The point of --find-links is to provide links to unindexed packages.
But if you use an unindexed package, you'll get a warning. IMO, you should not get a warning for correct use of software. Users should try to make warnings go away. If you give people warnings that they shouldn't make go away, then they are more likely to ignore warnings that you don't want them to. Either you can't have valid unindexed software, or setuptools shouldn't generate a warning if software isn't in the index. I really find the distinction between indexes and find-links rather puzzling. Personally, I'd like to find a way to merge these two concepts into one by choosing a definition of an index that admits a directory full of distributions. Then we could get rid of the find-links concept and allow 0 or more indexes to be used. This would be much simpler and cleaner IMO. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org