2011/3/6 Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> > 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.. > > +1
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