Martin v. Löwis wrote:
If people do misspell a package name when invoking easy_install, they get the feature that you consider of no value.
That is not correct. Not all packages are in PyPI. Using a package that isn't in PyPI will trigger a fetch of that page.
I don't understand. What page is fetched if the package is not in PyPI?
It isn't misspelled, it's just not there. People should *not* misspell pages when using setuptools. They should certainly not use misspelled package names in requirements. In my strongly help opinion, allowing imprecise names in requirements and setuptools command if of negative value.
I cannot comment on. I don't use setuptools, and have no intuition what is good or bad when using it (for example, I consider .egg files and the notion of eggs inherently bad).
Oh right. It makes using Python and packages *dramatically* easier. I guess you are resigned to their arrival though. ;-)
My main motivation to provide that page is that the setuptools specification says it should be there. As this entire infrastructure is for the sake of setuptools, I find it pointless to not support setuptools fully.
Great.
I'd be happy to contribute my polling version. That solves my problems and I can't justify the additional effort to figure out the cheeseshop softtware.
I'd like to hear other opinions here. Would people prefer if the index was always correct (and perhaps somewhat slow), or would they prefer instead that it is super-efficient (and somewhat out-of-date)?
I'd prefer accuracy over speed here. Michael Foord
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