
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, T-Methy Moddletin wrote:
Don't let Greg dissuade you. In almost all cases, something is better than nothing. The current state of a Python archive (or index) is pretty abysmal. Keep doing what you're doing! Don't stop! :-)
I'll second your opinion. It has been a LONG time since I bothered to look in there. I go to the web now for Python code.
I argued the same topic (different approach, tho) on the trove-dev mailing list (archives at www.python.org/pipermail/trove-dev). Basically, I believe the current Internet user is looking for a Freshmeat-style index, rather than a sunsite-style repository. Repositories are passe, indexes are The Right And Just Way. :-) Anybody can get a web page and some disk space. Therefore, anybody can publish their code themselves -- there is no need for central repositories except to help out lazy people that won't publish thru a web page. (alright, maybe that's too strong, but I'm making a point here :-) The problem, of course, is finding all this stuff. IMO, you ought to look harder at the Freshmeat style of index. More of the work is pushed onto the author, rather than the site maintainer. The editors review each announcement or edit, but I don't think they personally clean up the database. (yes, I realize some of your efforts are due to "startup" rather than a plan to do ongoing maintenance)
I posted a little version number parser about a year ago, I think. It handles most forms of version numbers, returning a tuple that can be properly ordered (among the software's other releases using that version number pattern). If you need to parse version numbers, that's the function to use. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

On 29 November 1999, Greg Stein said:
Umm, yeah, what he said. One True (Meta-)Archive would be best, but Yet Another (Meta-)Archive is better than nothing at all.
Again, I *mostly* agree -- meta-archives OK as long as link-checking is rigorously done. And central repositories may be passe and hard to scale, but they sure as heck are convenient once you know you're way around them.
That version number parser is lurking in the Distutils distribution (class LooseVersion in module distutils.version). Currently it fails its test suite because we never did work out those differences of opinion on what version numbers mean. ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913

Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:54:15 -0500, Greg Ward <gward@cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:
On 29 November 1999, Greg Stein said:
Keep doing what you're doing! Don't stop! :-)
Ah, how nice to have a Good Greg to counterbalance the Nasty Greg (with all his scary bondange toys!) <-; Thanks. Somehow this message didn't make it to my mailbox though; i only see it via Greg W's quoted reply...
Ah, i'll leave that to you guys to battle over. I don't have a need, that I know of, for version parsing yet. We shall see what the future holds. -- .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. Tim Moddletun =-=-=-=- with love and squalor -=-=-=-= x @ veX . net ``'`''`'`'''`'```'`'`'`'`''`'``'`'`'`'`'`''`'`'`''```'`'`'`''`''``'`'

On 29 November 1999, Greg Stein said:
Umm, yeah, what he said. One True (Meta-)Archive would be best, but Yet Another (Meta-)Archive is better than nothing at all.
Again, I *mostly* agree -- meta-archives OK as long as link-checking is rigorously done. And central repositories may be passe and hard to scale, but they sure as heck are convenient once you know you're way around them.
That version number parser is lurking in the Distutils distribution (class LooseVersion in module distutils.version). Currently it fails its test suite because we never did work out those differences of opinion on what version numbers mean. ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913

Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:54:15 -0500, Greg Ward <gward@cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:
On 29 November 1999, Greg Stein said:
Keep doing what you're doing! Don't stop! :-)
Ah, how nice to have a Good Greg to counterbalance the Nasty Greg (with all his scary bondange toys!) <-; Thanks. Somehow this message didn't make it to my mailbox though; i only see it via Greg W's quoted reply...
Ah, i'll leave that to you guys to battle over. I don't have a need, that I know of, for version parsing yet. We shall see what the future holds. -- .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. Tim Moddletun =-=-=-=- with love and squalor -=-=-=-= x @ veX . net ``'`''`'`'''`'```'`'`'`'`''`'``'`'`'`'`'`''`'`'`''```'`'`'`''`''``'`'
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