[Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

[Wes Turner]

On Thursday, December 15, 2016, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thursday, December 15, 2016, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','donald at stufft.io');>> wrote:
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>> On Dec 15, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
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>> The "curated package sets" on PyPI idea sounds a bit like Steam's curator
>> lists, which I like to think of as Twitter for game reviews. You can follow
>> a curator to see their comments on particular games, and the most popular
>> curators have their comments appear on the actual listings too.
>>
>> Might be interesting to see how something like that worked for PyPI,
>> though the initial investment is pretty high. (It doesn't solve the
>> coherent bundle problem either, just the discovery of good libraries
>> problem.)
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>> Theoretically we could allow people to not just select packages, but also
>> package specifiers for their “curated package set”, so instead of saying
>> “requests”, you could say “requests~=2.12” or “requests==2.12.2”. If we
>> really wanted to get slick we could even provide a requirements.txt file
>> format, and have people able to install the entire set by doing something
>> like:
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>>     $ pip install -r https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/
>> my-cool-set/requirements.txt
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> With version control?
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>     $ pip install -r https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/abcd123/
> requirements.txt
> <https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/requirements.txt>
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>     $ pip install -r https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/v0.0.1/
> requirements.txt
> <https://pypi.org/sets/dstufft/my-cool-set/requirements.txt>
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> This would be a graph. JSONLD?
> #PEP426JSONLD:
> - https://www.google.com/search?q=pep426jsonld
> - https://github.com/pypa/interoperability-peps/issues/31
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> With JSONLD, we could merge SoftwarePackage metadata with
> SoftwarePackageCollection metadata (just throwing some types out there).
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> A http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication is a http://schema.org/
> CreativeWork .
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> http://schema.org/softwareVersion
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- https://pypi.org/project/<name> as the canonical project
http://schema.org/url

- There's almost certainly a transform of TOML to JSONLD (" TOMLLD ")
- There is a standardized transform of JSONLD to RDF
- YAMLLD is a stricter subset of YAML (because just OrderedDicts


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>> Donald Stufft
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