[Catalog-sig] API search by python version (or classifier)

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jannis Leidel <jannis at leidel.info> wrote:
> On 27.01.2011, at 09:34, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
>> Oh... so what about this:
>>
>> - PyPI publishes setuptools metadata, but in Metadata 1.2 format. The
>> conversion is pretty simple, it's just translating the requires.txt
>> into PEP 345 fields.
>> - We add a marker so we know that those metadata are from setuptools
>>
>> That way, PyPI has an unified interface to get the dependencies, and
>> if there's an issue in project X because the static metadata fails on
>> platform Y, we ask the project to provide real PEP 345 metadata.
>
> How would the last bit work?

By providing a [metadata] section in your setup.cfg that contains them.

The idea is that a project can provide a compatibility for d2 without
removing the one for d1 - so pip and easy_install still work :

- d1/setuptools/distribute : setup.py
- d2: setup.cfg

Then, by using distutils2 register command, you can push the Metadata
1.2 to pypi.

This week end we're having a sprint where we will document this
process. We're also planning to provide a script to
automate the creation of [metadata] by running setup.py to make it easier.

>
> Jannis



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