[Catalog-sig] Re: Distutils sprinting at PyCon

[Richard Jones]

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[this is a response to a comment PJE left in my weblog]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 03:56 am, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> we're working on ... http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
> ...
> This format would obsolete PEP 262, since removing a package will be a
> matter of just deleting its .egg file.  It affects PEP 314 too, because
> "download URL" doesn't allow for platform-specific binary distribution like
> .egg files, and because better platform information is needed.

I'm not sure that having download URLs for *every* download format is *sane* 
for having in the PKG-INFO. I think that the only purpose for the 
download-url field in PKG-INFO is for the download of *the package that the 
PKG-INFO resides in*. The current bdist commands don't modify PKG-INFO 
though, which shoots this idea down pretty quickly (the platform information 
would need to be changed also). There may be some crossover with EGG-INFO, I 
don't know.

How to then handle a collection of download URLs is another problem. It could 
partly be solved by an online repository of the sort I'm planning on 
implementing.

This problem has had a lot of hand-waving up until now ;)


    Richard
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