[Catalog-sig] [Python-Dev] egg_info in PyPI

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> So you are fine with publishing "slightly incorrect" metadata at PyPI
>> ? I am not.
> 
> I really have no intuition for in how many cases the data will be
> incorrect. However, if users find that the data is incorrect for
> specific package, they ought to complain to the maintainer.
> 
>> I don't understand the rational behind providing flawed data at PyPI.
>> I am -1 on that.
> 
> -1 sounds much better than vetoing it :-) Taking the votes together,
> I currently arrive at
> 
> Tarek -1
> Michael -1 (?)
> Jannis -1 (?)

> Jim +1
> Thomas +1
> 
> Any other opinions?

-1 as well. The formats and file-names are just a complete mess and
not all packages on PyPI are available as eggs or compatible to
setuptools.

I think the information from PEP 345 which is already made
available via the XML-RPC .release_data() interface is sufficient
for most cases. In those cases where it is not, we should extend the
meta data.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc

It may be worthwhile providing the same sort of information as static
PKG-INFO file alongside the /simple index entries as well (e.g.
via a link on the package page), to make it possible to extract
the meta information without having to use the RPC mechanism
and making use of the mirror infrastructure.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0390/

PS: Could you put your DZUG talk up online somewhere. It includes
some very valuable information on the various available APIs that
is difficult to find elswhere.

Thanks,
-- 
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