[Python-ideas] pip list shows "name meta info of the package" which is of no use

[Wes Turner]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Aug 21, 2015, at 12:48, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> pip is actually developed as a separate project from python itself -- if
>> you're interested in improving pip then your best bet is to get in touch
>> with them through their mailing list or their bug tracker.
>>
> So, most minimally, what could be added to pip list would be a flag to
> retrieve/read package metadata?
>
>
> Most minimally, what could be done is to post this on the appropriate
> mailing list instead of the wrong one, as explained by the very message you
> just replied to.
>
>

This is a general gap in Python packaging (CLI) tools.
This is also contextually relevant to "[Distutils] PEP for dependencies on
libraries like BLAS (was: Re: Working toward Linux wheel support)"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-August/026711.html ,
which would add metadata that
could also be helpfully displayed here.

The appropriate mailing lists are:

* distutils-sig at python.org --
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
* https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues
* http://groups.google.com/group/pypa-dev
* python-ideas
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20150821/594a392b/attachment.html>