On 25 July 2010 23:41, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I guess we can all agree on the fact that setuptools/distribute's way to > find > packages and package versions is an interesting but unreliable hack. > However > the problem here is that right now many people depend on setuptools and > there is > a problem in the combination of setuptools and PyPI and the best way to fix > this > is PyPI. > > Heh pip, distribute and setuptools *really* shouldn't be scraping pypi - at least except as a last resort. pypi has an xml-rpc (and a fledgling json api) which should be used in preference to scraping. This *already* causes problems for pypi maintenance. Michael Foord > First the problem: setuptools knows the concept of encoding special > versions of > packages into URLs in package descriptions. Many people use that to refer > to > development versions. However if you do that, and the URL changes in a > later > version, on the simple index all links will still be present. > > In combination with setuptools/distribute's behaviour of using the last > match, > this means that you are unable to change the link unless you delete the old > description as well. > > As a fix I would recommend just listing the latest links on the simple page > or > to reverse the order so that easy_install picks up the right one. > > Here is an example of such a problematic PyPI item: > > http://pypi.python.org/simple/Flask-Babel/ > > Obviously, the link to mitsuhiko/flask-sqlalchemy is correct and > USERNAME/REPOSITORY is wrong :) > > Is that something that could be changed in PyPI or would that go into a new > version of setuptools/distribute? Right now it seems like the only > solution is > to either delete or edit old entries to fix the links. > > > Regards, > Armin > > > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > Catalog-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk
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