[Python-Dev] Typo in PEP-0423

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Tim Legrand <timlegrand.perso at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, this looks like a rhetorical question :)
>

It wasn't, I was hoping you'd be quicker at picking one than me (I don't
publish packages on PyPI much myself so the docs all look like Greek to me
:-).


> As I am totally new to Python packaging and publication, I had no precise
> idea of what I should get from this link.
>

Ah, so it was Greek to you too. :-)


> So my guess would be https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/packageindex.html
> (since I was expecting Python 2.7 resources, not 3.x, but I didn't mention
> that before).
>

Hm, but we are really trying to nudge people towards Python 3.


> Let me know if you want/I am allowed to fix the link in the original page
> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0423/>. I have no idea how to
> contribute to these repo too :)
>

This particular repo is managed by the "PEP editors":
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#id29

In this case I've just pushed the fix. Thanks for reporting it!

--Guido


> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> 2015-12-18 17:41 GMT+01:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>
>> Which of the top links of this query do you think it should be?
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=registering+with+the+package+index+site%3Apython.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Tim Legrand <timlegrand.perso at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> It's said on the Python repos page <https://hg.python.org/> that this
>>> mailing list is the official maintainer of the peps repo
>>> <https://hg.python.org/peps/>, so here I am writing my question.
>>>
>>> There's is a typo in the PEP-0423 description, in which it is said:
>>>
>>> "See Registering with the Package Index
>>> <http://docs.python.org/dev/packaging/packageindex.html> [27] for
>>> details."
>>>
>>> but the provided link is broken (error 404).
>>>
>>> In the source file
>>> <https://hg.python.org/peps/file/52767ab7e140/pep-0423.txt> written
>>> by Guido van Rossum, the link's placeholder is "Registering with the
>>> Package Index".
>>>
>>> What is the right link ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tim
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>>
>
>


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