[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> On 27 Sep 2007, at 12:20 , Stephan Richter wrote:
>> egg_info does not validate the trove classifiers, for example. I  
>> tried this
>> last night before writing this mail.
>
> Well, to be honest, I wonder how you can mess up with the  
> classifiers. I just always copy them from http://pypi.python.org/ 
> pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers. Anything else is just insane...

The classifiers are a PITA.  I suspect we should be very restrictive  
in using them.

It's especially annoying that release status can generally be  
inferred from the version number.

I'm beginning to wonder if we should have some setuptools extensions  
that automate some of these things,

Another idea I've been thinking about is a custom index that is used  
rather than PyPI.  The main motivation was to automate management of  
non-public distributions, but such a front end could also automate  
some aspects of releases that setuptools doesn't handle.

> But, if you wish for such a tool, let your wish be my command. With  
> the attached verifyclassifiers.py script, you may do so using the  
> following command:
>
>   python setup.py --classifiers | python verifyclassifiers.py

Cool.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation