On 18.12.2012 15:54, Holger Krekel wrote: > Hi Richard, hi all, > > While reading the pypi main and other sources i wondered how we could > switch off serving links from description_html, at least on a per-project > basis. It's really annoying that when you start to add some links to a > long_description that installation of your package will thus slow down > around the world. Even if you remove the links from the next release. > > How could we arrange for a maintainer to communicate to the pypi-server > that a particular project should not ever serve links from description_html > (and maybe not even from the homepage while we are at it)? > > Preferably it should be something that can be done from existing setup.py > files, like adding a special trove-classifier or keyword. But a little > custom tool or a web page form would be ok as well. > > If maintainers could easily switch off these extra links, then this means > less stress for the pypi server and a global considerable speedup of > installing python packages as often most of the pip/easy_install time is > spent with checking out these URLs.
Are you sure about about this ? AFAIK, setuptools/distribute only looks at links with rel="homepage" or rel="download" attributes, not all links on the PyPI project page. The links from the description don't receive such attributes. See e.g. http://pypi.python.org/simple/pytest/ -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 18 2012) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-12-14: Released mxODBC.Connect 2.0.2 ... http://egenix.com/go38 2012-12-05: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13 ... http://egenix.com/go37 2013-01-22: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 35 days to go eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
