[Distutils] Cheesecake service

[Michał Kwiatkowski]

On 2/14/07, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > More information about *how* the installation failed would be useful for
> > package authors to see at a glance what's wrong.  Right now, it's too easy
> > to dismiss it as a peculiarity of your installation.  Being able to click
> > through and see the log/tracebacks would probably make it more likely that
> > an author spots the problem(s).
>
> Looks like it's in there, but two links away, and the installation logs
> specifically are buried in the rest of the logs.  Also the logs are
> served up as a Python script or something, not text/plain.  Ideally the
> logs would be HTML with anchors, and then you could just add a link on
> the easy_installability to package_log_uri#installability.

Good idea. I will have to tweak Cheesecake output a bit, but it is
certainly possible. I will let the list know when I finish the
implementation.

Cheers,
mk