Nikita the Spider wrote: > > Hmmm, I hadn't thought about that since I've never used the Cheese Shop > myself. <honestly-not-being-grouchy-just-naive>What benefits does Cheese > Shop confer to someone looking for a package?</> I ask because from my > perspective it just adds overhead to package maintenance.
The Python Package Index, as I prefer to call it (but we're talking about the same thing), doesn't really make any special demands on distribution or maintenance: you just need to register yourself and add an entry for the package, filling in a few fields such as the homepage and perhaps the download link; you can also upload archives if you'd prefer. If you have a PKG-INFO file, you can either upload that in order to get fields filled out more conveniently (as long as the Package Index likes the file), and if you have a setup.py script you might be able to use the upload feature with that (and the PKG- INFO file, I suppose). Don't be confused by all the setuptools extras and any insistence that the Package Index works best with things that are packaged as Python Eggs: whilst that might confer certain benefits, mostly to users who rely on Egg dependencies, it's peripheral to the purpose of the Package Index itself. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list