On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 February 2017 at 11:07, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> I have two ides to improve the package index: > > > > Thank you for your ideas, but I don't think this is the right place for > > suggesting improvements to PyPI. You could try looking through the list > > of other Python mailing lists: > > > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo > > > > Or perhaps somebody else will suggest a better place to raise these > > issues. > > Hi George, > The PyPI codebase is pretty old and difficult to maintain, so there is > currently a project under way to replace it with a new implementation. > The project is hosted at https://github.com/pypa/warehouse and if > you're interested in getting involved that's probably the best > starting point for you. With regard to your two specific points: > > > 1. Query like in a webshop: checkboxes should use to select from > attributes > > The PyPI search interface is known to be pretty limited. I don't know > what changes have been put into the warehouse interface so far, but > I'd suggest checking out the state of their search, and if you still > feel there's scope for improvements, I'm sure they would be interested > in suggestions/contributions. > - https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/blob/master/warehouse/search.py - https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/blob/master/warehouse/packaging/search.py - https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/blob/master/warehouse/views.py def search() > > > 2. It would would be good to implement some user rating mechanism like > in the webshops or software stores. > > This has been debated, both here and (I believe) on other lists in the > past. The general consensus is that it's not immediately obvious that > this would be beneficial. I'd suggest you do some searches to dig up > the history of this suggestion (sorry, I don't have any direct links) > and see if you feel there's something that has been missed - if so, > again the best place to propose this would be with the Warehouse guys. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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