[Distutils] [Python-ideas] Version control system link in package meta data

[Tymoteusz Jankowski]

Thanks for information. I think that's enough to me. I'm gonna check all
URLs in package data and if anyone match to VCS i clone it. If not fallback
to regular package installation.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 3:46 PM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 March 2016 at 20:44, Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com>
> wrote:
> > I agree, it would be nice if everyone used git (or any of a small set of
> > VCS), and all the packages on pypi listed their repositories in the
> > metadata.  If that were the case, this tool might already exist.  In the
> > current state of things, though, i don't think it makes much sense to
> > produce a general purpose tool for this.
>
> We don't place any particular requirements on the development
> practices of projects publishing their releases through PyPI, so
> there's no requirement for a public VCS URL to even exist for a
> project, let alone for it to be mentioned in the project metadata.
>
> That said, since project URLs do make it possible for projects to
> share that metadata if they want to, this is a situation where a
> "checkout-pypi-project" that gained popularity might provide more
> incentive for maintainers to provide that metadata and keep it up to
> date. As a fallback for projects without that metadata, searching
> popular hosting sites like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and even
> SourceForge, would provide some initial links to investigate.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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