[Catalog-sig] New classifiers for Plone

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Alex Clark <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:
..
> Supporting custom trove classifiers would help a lot. In fact I have avoided
> asking this question for years, because I knew someone would respond with
> the exact comment above ;-).
>
> But if they go in the trove list for now, that makes my life easier because
> then we can use the setuptools API to extract the version info and set the
> appropriate fields in PloneSoftwareCenter (or at least that is my current
> understanding).

In my knowledge, the only part where a custom classifier would not
work is the main PyPI server, that checks the value when you register
your metadata.

A few years ago, my intent was that PSC could maintain extra
classifiers, exactly for this use case.


> Alternatively, if we just instruct folks to start using those classifiers,
> we'd likely have to do something ugly to provide the same type of
> functionality.
>
> Bottom line: we'd appreciate these being added until such time as custom
> classifiers can be implemented. I picked "4.3" because it's the furthest
> release on the radar from now. We don't expect to be asking again for
> another 6 months at least, maybe longer. And I agree that it's "suboptimal"
> to have to keep asking (and supporting an endless list). Not to mention any
> "my framework too, please!!!" precedent this could potentially cause.
>
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>
> Alex
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