David Lyon wrote: > 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..
I know that the issue tracker for PyPI is (still) on SF, but development appear to happen elsewhere and I can't find any contact information on the PyPI web pages. Is Richard Jones still working on it ? They I could contact him directly to hash this out. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 09 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new 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/ _______________________________________________ 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
