[Catalog-sig] PyPI enhancement wish items?

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>- auto-generate download_urls for package uploads
> 
> 
> This seems unnecessary to me, since easy_install reads the upload links 
> just fine where they are, but of course I'm biased.  :)

It might be nice if PyPI can figure out SF download links.  Then if SF 
changes its format again PyPI can be updated and easy_install won't have 
to be.  It's a lot easier to update the one and only PyPI than every 
easy_install.


>>- command-line tool to query pypi and fetch entries (is this necessary
>>  given easy_install?)
> 
> 
> A stable, documented interface to perform the operations that easy_install 
> does now via screen-scraping and URL interpretation would be useful.

Would that be the XML-RPC interface?

> The other things I'd add to the list are (decreasing priority):
> 
> 1) the ability to treat project names and versions as case-insensitive, 
> while removing extraneous characters (as in pkg_resources.safe_name()) for 
> purposes both of searching and determining name uniqueness when registering.

I'm guessing that means: if someone goes to /pypi/foo and the real name 
is Foo, then redirect them to /pypi/Foo.

> 2) Compute "cheesecake" scores for modified entries (using only the metrics 
> that don't actually run any of the package's code, of course) and display 
> them prominently. :)

Or alternately, have a way of uploading scores (from a trusted source), 
and then the scores can be calculated offline on a less important 
server.  This will make it easier to develop Cheesecake too, since it 
can be updated without updating PyPI.

I'm guessing the Cheesecake results can be summarized by a single score 
and then some human-readable HTML describing the score.

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