[Python-Dev] Packaging documentation and packaging.pypi API

[Carl Meyer]

Hi Paul,

On 06/20/2012 09:29 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> As a specific example, one thing I would like to do is to be able to
> set up a packaging.pypi client object that lets me query and download
> distributions. However, rather than just querying PyPI (the default)
> I'd like to be able to set up a list of locations (PyPI, a local
> server, and maybe some distribution files stored on my PC) and combine
> results from all of them. This differs from the mirror support in that
> I want to combine the lists, not use one as a fallback if the other
> doesn't exist. From the documentation, I can't tell if this is
> possible, or a feature request, or unsupported... (Actually, there's
> not even any documentation saying how the URL(s) in index_url should
> behave, so how exactly do I set up a local repository anyway...?)

This is perhaps a tangent, as your point here is to point out what the
API of packaging.pypi ought to allow - but pip's PackageFinder class can
easily do exactly this for you. Feel free to follow up with me for
details if this is actually still a problem you need to solve.

Carl