[Product-Developers] Re: PyPI support in PloneSoftwareCenter

Raphael Ritz r.ritz at biologie.hu-berlin.de
Fri Dec 28 17:45:04 UTC 2007


Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Hello,
> 

Hi Tarek,

having seen your and Mustafa's blog posts on the issue recently
I really got excited about this. This is a great feature and
a good direction for PSC to develop into, IMHO.

> I have create a branch for PSC that supports PyPI commands, from Sidnei's
> work two years ago, with the current trunk, with a few enhancements.
> 
> current features:
>   - added a "simple" view so easy_install can browse a PloneSoftwareCenter
> to get final releases
>   - when an egg is registered or uploaded, a project and a corresponding
> release is created or updated
>      with releases.
>  
> This allows PSC to  act like PyPI.
> 
> I have to finish some work: 
>  - on classifiers so PSC can respond to the --list-classifiers call
>  - on release plaftorm attribute, so it is automatically set to the right
> value depending on the file received
> 
> I would like to merge my work on the trunk and continue there if everyone
> agrees.
> 

Deploying PSC locally myself and assuming plone.org will welcome this
addition I'm

+1

on merging this.

Just my 2 cents

Raphael

> My next step on this will be to provide a public PSC with the current trunk
> for feedback,
> and a script that will upload there all eggs needed to build a plone 3
> instance.
> 
> FYI, I am also working on two other things that will help us use PSC and the
> Cheeseshop smoothly:
> 
> - an enhanced version or "register" and "upload" command, that will allow
> having a .pypirc with several servers in it. The goal is to be able to
> register/upload packages to several servers at once.
> 
> - some changes on PyPI itself, because it is acting buggy right now. The
> final goal is to be able to have
> different trove classifiers for each servers.
> 
>  
> Cheers
> 
> Tarek
> 
> 
> 





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