Maurice LING wrote:
I've emailed to catelog-sig mailing list and is still waiting to hear something. Currently, I have no idea of the structure of PyPI. I hope I can hear from them soon and generate some starting points...
Posting questions is not the only way to find answers. The source code of PyPI is available: sf.net/projects/pypi.
Regards, Martin
I've browsed the source codes of PyPI in sf.net, nothing pops up as very useful to me... I reckoned that sitting in here or hoping for replies from catelog-sig isn't going to help much.
On that, I've prototyped a very simple proof-of-concept of what I have in mind, regarding a Fink-like tool for Python's 3rd party libraries management. Please bear in mind that this is a proof-of-concept prototype, really bare bones. It can be found in 'centipyde' module in sf.net/projects/ib-dwb. In case the CVS hadn't updated by the time someone reads this, the directory layout is this:
../centipyde ../centipyde/centipyde.py ../centipyde/pgkinfo ../centipyde/pgkinfo/ply15.info
ply15.info contains the following text (pretty much modelled against Fink):
package=ply15 maintainer=. dependencies=. downloadurl=http://systems.cs.uchicago.edu/ply/ply-1.5.tar.gz prebuildscript=tar zxvf ply-1.5.tar.gz sourcedir=ply-1.5 buildscript=python setup.py build installscript=sudo python setup.py install
centipyde.py is the following: =====================================================
""" Author: Maurice H.T. Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright (c) 2005 Maurice H.T. Ling Date created : 28th April 2005 """
PKGINFOPATH = 'pkginfo' INSTALL_LOG = 'install.log'
import os import string import sys
def install_package(package_name):
f = open(os.getcwd() + os.sep + PKGINFOPATH + os.sep + package_name + '.info', 'r')
install_info = {}
for line in f.readlines():
line = string.split(line, '=')
if line[1][-1] == os.linesep:
install_info[line[0]] = string.strip(line[1][:-1])
else: install_info[line[0]] = string.strip(line[1])
f.close()
print "Package Installation Information: " + str(install_info)
os.system('curl -O ' + str(install_info['downloadurl'])) preinstall = []
preinstall = string.split(install_info['prebuildscript'], ';')
for cmd in preinstall: os.system(cmd) cwd = os.getcwd()
print cwd
os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), install_info['sourcedir']))
print os.getcwd() buildscript = []
buildscript = string.split(install_info['buildscript'], ';')
for cmd in buildscript: os.system(cmd) installscript = []
installscript = string.split(install_info['installscript'], ';')
for cmd in installscript: os.system(cmd)
if sys.argv[1] == 'install': install_package(sys.argv[2])
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When I run "python centipyde.py install ply15", PLY1.5 gets downloaded from David Beazley's website, uncompressed and installed into the site-package.
All comments and code donations are welcomed.
Cheers Maurice -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
