On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> One thing I find weird is the root page of packages.python.org -- This >> warning is not super user friendly. > > What particular clause strikes you as particularly unfriendly? > Please understand that it may sound harsh, but is necessary - better > be safe than sorry.
Nothing wrong about the warning itself, but about landing on a plain condensed text page. I think we should make it a html page. And maybe display the last ten packages doc updates ? > >> That said, maybe projects documentation could simply be displayed >> under their pypi.python.org/pypi root page, >> and packages.python.org made an alias to pypi.python.org > > Not sure I understand the proposal. What URL would distribute > get (say)? (i.e. what is distribute's "pypi.python.org/pypi > root page"?) If "http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute";, what > would you do with the content that is currently displayed there? so Distribute has currently: "http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute"; It's the Description field of the metadata. And then we push our doc at: "http://packages.python.org/distribute/"; Since "packages.python.org" allow us to have a directory with HTML files, those could be made accessible under: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute/docs, with a big link on the top of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute to go there. So: http://packages.python.org/PROJECT/ would become http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PROJECT/doc IOW, not changes but just avoiding two places -- without giving any hint on each place about the existence of the other place. Why Distribute would have two root pages ? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute is a fine one Then, maybe http://pypi.python.org/pypi could simply become http://packages.python.org, with: - http://packages.python.org/PROJECT - http://packages.python.org/PROJECT/docs - http://packages.python.org/PROJECT/1.2 - etc.. > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
