On 7/21/2010 6:21 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Thanks Tim ! > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > > [..] >> >> Several people outlined the recent heated discussion over the addition >> of a checkbox to the PyPI user-registration pages. Tarek has already >> undertaken to patch PyPI to move the checkbox back one step, allowing >> existing distutils users to register from the command line. > > Yes, so the problem goes away and we are conforming to the legal requirements. > >> At the same >> time, Brett advised removing that functionality from distutils2 as >> signing up on a web page is no great hardship. > > We will remove/simplify the register command, and get rid of that part. > > In the meantime, to try to avoid this problem in the future, since > quite a few projects > depend on PyPI now, I would like to suggest that a PEP of the various > protocols PyPI has, is created. > > We do have some documentation here and there about the XML-RPC > interface, the HTTP interface, etc., but we should have a single > document describing the PyPI APIs, and maybe adding an API version > number, so it can evolve smoothly. > > This would also be helpful for the people that are writing their own > PyPI software, and ensure that distutils2 can work out of the box with > any PyPI server out there. > > Tarek
+1 Readers may not be aware that there is a current attempt to try to catalog and to some extent unify the different web presences that the Foundation maintains. This is why I am copying this message to Ethan Schoonover, who leads that effort. PyPi will doubtless be an increasingly important part of that presence, so I hope it can be integrated with the rest somehow. I do not imagine that this will be an easy issue to resolve, but a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
