On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:29 +0100, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Well yeah, and the only sane way I can think to handle this is to have a > metadata file that gets uploaded with each distribution that covers all > these things (and the other things that other people need) and then have > the index (which would hopefully be PyPI on the whole) be queryable > along the lines of "give me a download url for a distribution named X > that is for Python 2.6, Win32, UCS4, PostGreSQL 8.5, BlagBlah"... Exactly. I'd like to see that and it sounds like a very simple and reasonable proposal. One could say that much of the setuptools cloud came about because of the lack of the queryable download url. Setuptools does a lot of work here to 'work-around' the ommission on pypi of a package download url. I'm just with you 100% on this... David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
