[Distutils] PEP 438 - Transition Phase 1

[PJ Eby]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:58 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> Tensed to see how many people will switch without the mails

I'll be waiting for the mails, myself, on account of I'm hoping it'll
give me a nice list of which of my packages I can switch, so as not to
need to go check on all of them myself.

It occurred to me today, something I probably should have mentioned
earlier in the PEP process, but it'd be nice to be able to switch off
home page links without switching off download links.  I never have
anything to spider in my homepage links, only ever in the download
links.

Ah well, it'll probably be moot soon.  If I understand the PEP
correctly, I should be able to write a script that posts #md5-tagged
links to my development snapshots, so I can include those directly
instead of using directory spidering from the download URLs.  Maybe
I'll write an "uplink" command extension for setuptools to generate
and send the links to PyPI, using the same hooks the "upload" command
does.  Then I could tie it straight into my build process for
development snapshots, without having to run a separate script.