On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:57 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> 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 think you two have missed my email to PJE. > > In summary: > > PyPI already does have mechanism for querying download URLs. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc > > It only lacks some more meta-data that would be required to > match up the user's configuration with the one used in the > uploaded URLs. > > And it would be handy to have a mechanism to just upload the > URL data rather than the whole package. Looking at distutils' > upload command, PyPI currently appears to only support uploads > of the package file itself. > > Basically, most of the mechnisms are already there, they just need > some extra care.
Maybe you're right. I'll look into it. > BTW: Who would I need to contact for the PyPI side to work out > an upload_url distutils command ? pypi is on sourceforge... ask to become a developer I guess.. 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
