On 24.05.2013 18:18, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On May 24, 2013, at 12:14 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > >> On 24.05.2013 17:21, Vinay Sajip wrote: >>> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: >>> >>>> Most packages also have an egg-info inside of them you can parse. >>> >>> I don't know how accurate that information is - IIRC pip always runs >>> egg-info on downloaded archives. I presume this is to get the correct >>> dependencies which are relevant to the installation system. >> >> It would be nice to have the PKG-INFO readily available on the /simple/ >> index pages. >> >> This contains the Requires header as well. > > The requires headers in the PKG-INFO are practically worthless. > >> >> At the moment, PKG-INFO is only available on the PyPI edit pages >> for packages you own, even though access is possible without >> login: >> >> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=egenix-mx-base&version=3.2.6&:action=display_pkginfo
Leaving aside the unusable Requires header, could we still get PKG-INFO exposed in the /simple/ index ? This would then make it possible to access the basic meta-data cached via the CDN and without having to download the package. Something like: <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=egenix-mx-base&version=3.2.6&:action=display_pkginfo";>3.2.6 PKG-INFO</a><br/> for each release. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 26 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-07-01: EuroPython 2013, Florence, Italy ... 36 days to go ::::: 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/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
