[Catalog-sig] PyPI down again...

[Jannis Leidel]

Am 17.06.2010 um 09:27 schrieb Mathieu Leduc-Hamel:

> Yeah for sure there's different implementation of Pypi in django or with other framework.
> 
> You can check this one too: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chishop/0.2.0

FYI, djangopypi is a fork of chishop to separate the reusable and example server parts better. I already contributed a few patches lately and will keep working on it over the summer.

> But the question was not necessarily how difficult it was to do it but if it would acceptable by the community, but we are on the right list to discuss that.
> 
> have you try it, is it working properly ?

It worked in my manual tests but needs more testing with easy_install, et al. If anyone is interested, there is a buildout config included in the repository [1] which should get you up and running quickly.

Best,
Jannis

1: http://github.com/benliles/chishop


> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2010-06-11, at 1:56 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> > If you are willing to invest *a lot* of time, then it seems that rewriting PyPI in Django would make a lot of people happy, because
> > they claim they can't contribute to the current code base because
> > they don't understand that. I don't want to do such a rewrite on
> > my own because I *do* understand the code base (despite not having written it in the first place, so I think that if you really want
> > to contribute, you can learn how it works); it also violates Joel
> > Spolsky's principle of never ever doing rewrites.
> 
> FYI: I just happened to stumble upon what claims to be a "re-implementation of PyPI" in Django:
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/djangopypi/0.4
> 
> -srid
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