Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> If people do misspell a package name when invoking easy_install, >>> they get the feature that you consider of no value. >>> >> That is not correct. Not all packages are in PyPI. Using a package that >> isn't in PyPI will trigger a fetch of that page. >> > > I don't understand. What page is fetched if the package is not in PyPI? > > >> It isn't misspelled, >> it's just not there. People should *not* misspell pages when using >> setuptools. They should certainly not use misspelled package names in >> requirements. In my strongly help opinion, allowing imprecise names in >> requirements and setuptools command if of negative value. >> > > I cannot comment on. I don't use setuptools, and have no intuition what > is good or bad when using it (for example, I consider .egg files and > the notion of eggs inherently bad). > >
Oh right. It makes using Python and packages *dramatically* easier. I guess you are resigned to their arrival though. ;-) > My main motivation to provide that page is that the setuptools > specification says it should be there. As this entire infrastructure > is for the sake of setuptools, I find it pointless to not support > setuptools fully. > > Great. >> I'd be happy to contribute my polling version. That solves my problems >> and I can't justify the additional effort to figure out the cheeseshop >> softtware. >> > > I'd like to hear other opinions here. Would people prefer if the index > was always correct (and perhaps somewhat slow), or would they prefer > instead that it is super-efficient (and somewhat out-of-date)? > I'd prefer accuracy over speed here. Michael Foord > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
