[Catalog-sig] Re: PyPI now live on python.org

Richard Jones rjones@ekit-inc.com
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:50:32 +1100


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:02 pm, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > I've just "switched on" the package index on python.org.
>
> excellent!
>
> one nit: the RSS feed seems to be broken; it seems to contain
> HTML stuff mixed in with the RSS data:
>
>     http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=rss
>
> here's what wget gives me:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!-- name="generator" content="PyPI/1.0" -->
> <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"
> "http://my.n etscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
> <rss version="0.91">
>  <channel>
>   <title>PyPI recent updates</title>
>   <link>http://www.python.org/pypi</link>
>   <description>Updates to the Python Packages Index (PyPI)</description>
>   <language>en</language>
> Status: 500 Internal Server Error
> Content-Type: text/html
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.python.org/style.css" type="text/css"?>
> <html><head><title>Python Packages Index</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> <meta name="generator" content="HT2HTML/2.0">
> <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.python.org/pics/pyfav.gif">
> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="http://www.python.org/style.css"
> type="text/css"> <link rel="STYLESHEET"
> href="http://mechanicalcat.net/pypi.css" type="text/css"> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"
>       marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
>       link="#0000bb"  vlink="#551a8b"
>       alink="#ff0000">

Hurm - I can't reproduce this - if you get it again, could you submit the 
entire response to the bug tracker on sf.net? The project is "pypi" and is 
linked to from the pypi pages as "Bug Reports".


> I'm also having serious problems setting trove classifiers for my
> contributions, but that's probably my fault.

Please let me know if there's anything that can be done at my end to make this 
work better for you.


    Richard