On 20.03.2013 22:02, holger krekel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 21:27 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 20.03.2013 21:16, Richard Jones wrote: >>> On 20 March 2013 12:31, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>> * I'm missing an option: >>>> >>>> [ ] Ask tools to scrape only the Download URL. >>> >>> This is not part of the planned implementation. The download_url was >>> never well-specified, and only allows for one URL, hence the >>> implementation we have. >> >> I know it's not in PEP 438 at the moment, but was one of the >> nits I mentioned to Holger last week. It's specified in the >> meta-data format 1.1 as "A string containing the URL from >> which this version of the package can be downloaded.": >> >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/ >> >> Having such an option would allow cleaning up the /simple/ >> index pages a lot, without any changes on the tools side. >> >> It would also be needed for the my proposal of securing >> external downloads, where you point to a hashed download >> page with the download_url. > > I think it's better to just go for a tool which a maintainer can > use to register external urls (with hashes) from crawling and scraping > links once from an external page. This way client installers worldwide > do not need to visit and scrape that external page just to obtain > release file links. As you have mostly automated your release process > do you foresee any issues with adding an automated step of registering > externals and putting your package hosting mode to "pypi-explicit"?
I don't have a problem with adding support to our release process (provided there's some stable way to access the needed API). I'm thinking about other package owners who have the download_url already point to a page with the distribution file(s) and don't have a release process they can easily adapt. For them, it would be a nice possibility to speed up installation of their packages. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 20 2013) >>> 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-03-13: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13 ... http://egenix.com/go39 ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: 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 Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
