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

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Apr 9 21:12:00 CEST 2011


At 09:13 AM 4/9/2011 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> >I also don't know
> > whether it [setuptools] scrapes VCS URLs from the '/simple' interface.
>
>Oh gods I hope not.

Um, that's a big part of what the /simple interface is *for*, so it 
doesn't have to pull them from the formatted HTML of the /pypi interface.

(As for non-SVN revision control systems, right now it does not 
support their special URLs, even with a plugin.)



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