[Python-Dev] eggs now mandatory for pypi?
David Lyon
david.lyon at preisshare.net
Thu Oct 8 02:17:34 CEST 2009
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:29 +0100, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>
wrote:
> Well yeah, and the only sane way I can think to handle this is to have a
> metadata file that gets uploaded with each distribution that covers all
> these things (and the other things that other people need) and then have
> the index (which would hopefully be PyPI on the whole) be queryable
> along the lines of "give me a download url for a distribution named X
> that is for Python 2.6, Win32, UCS4, PostGreSQL 8.5, BlagBlah"...
Exactly.
I'd like to see that and it sounds like a very simple and reasonable
proposal.
One could say that much of the setuptools cloud came about because of
the lack of the queryable download url. Setuptools does a lot of work
here to 'work-around' the ommission on pypi of a package download url.
I'm just with you 100% on this...
David
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