[Catalog-sig] Can PyPI have a new field that stores the code repository URL?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Tarek,
>
> In PEP-345 there isn't a specific URL field. Instead we have to hope
> that people add something and then follow a 'source code' label
> convention. To know to add this field, one needs to know the
> convention, and that is in PEP-345, far from PyPI and its
> instructions. Even if instructed, from a sociological point of view
> one could argue that this is not the most efficient way to handle the
> issue.
>
> My request is for a obvious, specific field. An obvious, specific
> field will encourage package owners to provide links to their source
> code repositories. The field and the APIs it will feed will allow
> tools like Packaginator, Read the Docs, Depot.io, and other
> yet-to-be-invented tools a clear path to the source code repo for
> existing and unknown reasons.

We had that discussion in the past when we added the Project-URL field.
We ended up with the conclusion that it's hard to define such a field
in a generic way, so it's free-form for now.

Mostly because of the url schemes, and because we were not sure what
people would do with it.

What do you want to do ? do you want a web UI of the repo ? or a
git://, ssh://  lp:// link ? etc..
what is expected in the linked page ? Do you want a single repo link ?
several ? what if the project does not have a repo ?

Cheers

>
> Danny Greenfeld
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I added in PEP 345 a field where you can store any number of urls for
>> the project
>>
>> Check it out, PyPI also support displaying it under a "Project Links" portlet
>>
>> example: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gfbi_core/0.2
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Projects have home pages, they also have Repos but that is not on
>>> PyPI. For the forthcoming Python Packages
>>> (https://github.com/cartwheelweb/packaginator) having this field would
>>> mean gathering metrics on those projects would be great. Otherwise we
>>> have to check 10K+ records. I know that the data will be entered in
>>> eventually, but eventually we'll have the canonical repo source for a
>>> greater majority of projects..
>>>
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