[Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

[Steve Dower]

The "curated package sets" on PyPI idea sounds a bit like Steam's curator lists, which I like to think of as Twitter for game reviews. You can follow a curator to see their comments on particular games, and the most popular curators have their comments appear on the actual listings too.

Might be interesting to see how something like that worked for PyPI, though the initial investment is pretty high. (It doesn't solve the coherent bundle problem either, just the discovery of good libraries problem.)

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From: "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io>
Sent: ‎12/‎15/‎2016 4:21
To: "Freddy Rietdijk" <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl>
Cc: "DistUtils mailing list" <Distutils-Sig at python.org>; "Barry Warsaw" <barry at python.org>
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages



On Dec 15, 2016, at 7:13 AM, Freddy Rietdijk <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl> wrote:


> Putting the conclusion first, I do see value in better publicising

> "Recommended libraries" based on some automated criteria like:


Yes, we should recommend third-party libraries in a trusted place like the documentation of CPython. The amount of packages that are available can be overwhelming. Yet, defining a set of packages that are recommended, and perhaps working together, is still far from defining an exact set of packages that are known to work together, something which I proposed here.




We could theoretically bake this into PyPI itself, though I’m not sure if that makes sense.


We could also probably bake something like “curated package sets” into PyPI where individual users (or groups of users) can create their own view of PyPI for people to use, while still relying on all of the infrastructure of PyPI. Although I’m not sure that makes any sense either.


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Donald Stufft
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