[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Sat Nov 7 14:38:25 CET 2009


On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:53:17 -0600, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> During that conversation Walker mentioned that he thought that Java's
> Maven packaging system had been really successful with the idea of
> having a metadata file stored outside each package. That made it
> easier for the metadata format to evolve; there is no need change
> every package in a repository every time the metadata format is
> improved. It also allows convenient inspection of dependencies between
> packages without having to download/decompress those packages. (Maven
> also stores a copy of the metadata inside the package, but the
> authoritative/complete copy is considered the one outside the
> package).

So too in python and pypi.

I have used it and it works fine.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc?action=show&redirect=CheeseShopXmlRpc

The problem is not that the functionality doesn't exist, just that
users are expected to do an xmlrpc call to get it...

(more logical would be to have a pypi module)

David




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