[Distutils] People want CPAN :-)
Alex Grönholm
alex.gronholm at nextday.fi
Sat Nov 7 16:13:17 CET 2009
Andreas Jung kirjoitti:
> Am 06.11.09 18:53, schrieb Guido van Rossum:
>
>> I just found this comment on my blog. People have told me this in
>> person too, so I believe it is real pain (even if the solution may be
>> elusive and the suggested solutions may not work). But I don't know
>> how to improve the world. Is the work on distutils-sig going to be
>> enough? Or do we need some other kind of work in addition? Do we need
>> more than PyPI?
>>
> My 2 cents after reading and ignoring the whole thread:
>
> - PyPI provides a good functionality so far
>
> What is annoying about PyPI:
>
> - some package maintainers have a certain ignorance
> and arrogance by misusing PyPI
>
> - for uploading packages without or broken metadata
> - for uploading packages of doubtful quality
> - for uploading packages to PyPI as a replacement
> for a private egg server
>
> - supports too much different versioning schemas. Both
> schema supported by setuptools and the one proposed
> by Tarek in some PEP are totally over-engineered.
> A simple and *enforced* versioning schema is what
> I want to see.
>
> - no more external hosting of packages. If people
> want their packages listed on Pypi, they should
> be required to upload their packages on PyPI
> (no more issues with non-available external server,
> no more issues with mirroring external servers,
> no more issues with wrong download URLs within
> package metadata)
>
> - better checks on uploaded packages. A source code
> release should be made using the 'sdist' command.
> We don't need source eggs of a package for
> Python 2.4-2.6 containing Python source code
> only.
>
+5
> The solution for a better PyPI:
>
> - more checks, more restrictions
>
> - every package maintainer uploading something to PyPI
> should have a certain attitude that PyPI is a public
> resource where the content should met certain
> quality criteria and where each package has
> a certain responsibility to Python community.
>
>
+2
> Andreas
>
>
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