Fredrik Lundh schrieb:
> I don't thing Ping had URL hacking in mind when he wrote "obvious,
> direct way". even a heavily restian site like del.icio.us has an URL
> manipulation interface available *inside* the browser window. maybe
> we should steal their approach?
This brings up the question
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Right now, the site doesn't provide an obvious, direct way to get
>> to a package *even if you know the exact name of the package*.
>
> As people pointed out on the SIG list: sure it does. If you
> know the package name is "ctypes", you enter into your browser
>
> http:
Fredrik Lundh schrieb:
> (why is a package index so different from things like "documentation"
> and "source" and "installer" and "bug tracker" and "conference", by the
> way? I'm sure we could get tons of cute name proposals if we asked the
> community...)
And, indeed, the Python conference w
Ka-Ping Yee schrieb:
> I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but i think the site could
> really use improved search and navigation. It used to have a search
> form that was (in my opinion) broken enough to be misleading, and now
> the search form appears to be gone. The Google-based form feels
Aahz schrieb:
>> See, and I believe this isn't the case for distutils.
>
> Can you suggest a good mechanism for resolving the deadlock? We have the
> primary maintainer (and some other users) claiming that distutils is a
> mess that needs rewriting. You think it doesn't, but based on other
> com
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk schrieb:
>> I still think that PUA characters would be a better use
>
> What if the filename contains the correct UTF-8 encoding of such PUA
> character?
Escaping would need to be used, e.g. by picking some character as the
escape character.
Regards,
Martin
