[Distutils] PEP 438 - Transition Phase 1

[Donald Stufft]

On May 19, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

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> On 05/18/2013 08:50 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > Phase 1 of PEP 438 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0438/) has
> > begun.
> > 
> > Deployed to production PyPI is: - New packages default to
> > pypi-explicit - Old packages default to pypi-scrape-crawl - Package
> > Maintainers can select which hosting mode to use - Package Maintainers
> > can control what urls show up on their /simple/ index
> > 
> > What's still happening:
> > 
> > - All existing packages will be processed to determine if they host
> > files on PyPI, if they host files externally but link directly, or if
> > they Host files externally and require scraping the home or download
> > url pages. - Taking the data obtained from processing email users to
> > tell them if their package can be moved to a more restrictive download
> > option (e.g. all their versions are installable directly from PyPI, or
> > from a direct link from PyPI). - A Month after that actually moving
> > them to their detected new hosting mode (if possible on a per project
> > basis).
> 
> I would be glad to update all my packages to explicit mode, but would
> prefer to be able to do that in a single batch (clicking through to 250
> or so to set it will be tedious).  It would be good to automate removing
> all external URLs previously sniffed from the long-description, too.

Yea, as soon as I figure out how to embed arbitrary javascript into a zope.pagetemplate there
will be a toggle checked for all thing.

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> Tres.
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