catalog-sig@python.org discussions

1	[Catalog-sig] how to hide the number of downloads on Pypi

Hi, My package is too large to be hosted on Pypi, so it's on Bitbucket. But Pypi always displays 0 downloads today, this week, month. Is there any way to hide that information (or even better, make ...

Albert-Jan Roskam
Sep 7, 2013 at 9:47 am
Sep 8, 2013 at 3:12 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] Reminder: catalog-sig is retired

Please direct all followups / CCs to distutils-sig. Thankyou, Richard An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL ...

Richard Jones
Apr 1, 2013 at 6:41 am
Apr 1, 2013 at 6:41 am

0	[Catalog-sig] Shutting down catalog-sig

Hi all, We're about to merge the catalog-sig and distutils-sig by just removing the catalog-sig mailing list. If you wish to remain in the discussions regarding Python package cataloging then please ...

Richard Jones
Mar 30, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Mar 30, 2013 at 10:16 pm

4	[Catalog-sig] How to determine if archive is an sdist or bdist

Is there an easy way to programmatically tell if an archive (tar.gz, zip, etc.) in the dist directory is a binary or sdist? I would like to post-process the contents of a dist directory and classify ...

James Carpenter
Mar 28, 2013 at 7:57 pm
Apr 1, 2013 at 4:59 am

25	[Catalog-sig] Merge catalog-sig and distutils-sig

Is there much point in keeping catalog-sig and distutils-sig separate? It seems to me that most of the same people are on both lists, and the topics almost always have consequences to both sides of ...

Donald Stufft
Mar 28, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Mar 30, 2013 at 10:20 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] PEP 438 progress update

Hi all, It was my intention to formally accept the PEP and deploy the implementation to the production PyPI when I got back home this week, but things have been quite hectic and I've not found the ...

Richard Jones
Mar 28, 2013 at 12:29 am
Mar 28, 2013 at 12:29 am

1	[Catalog-sig] c.pypi.python.org - IP address change

Hi there, I moved my c.pypi.python.org mirror to a new faster machine. Please update the DNS entry to 176.9.146.29. This mirror is running on top of Christian Theune's bandersnatch implementation ...

Andreas Jung
Mar 27, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Mar 28, 2013 at 10:33 am

2	[Catalog-sig] Suscribing to PYPI projects

I wonder if would be too difficult to be able to subscribe to projects in PYPI, to be notified if a new version is available. An option to PIP & family to verify local versions with PYPI versions, ...

Jesus Cea
Mar 26, 2013 at 8:07 pm
Mar 27, 2013 at 3:27 pm

1	[Catalog-sig] error trying to upload by package

Hi All, I have a package called files: https://github.com/Simplistix/files ...but I get a 403 when I try to register it on PyPI. Why is that? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch ...

Chris Withers
Mar 26, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Mar 26, 2013 at 2:04 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] PyPI Crediting

Does anybody think that PyPI source code base should include the names of the people who contributed to its development? -- anatoly t. An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL ...

Anatoly techtonik
Mar 22, 2013 at 8:32 am
Mar 22, 2013 at 8:32 am

0	[Catalog-sig] PyPI web interface UX (Was: API for uploading packages to PyPI)

OMG. I didn't even looked at the boxes. IMHO somebody should reduce the amount of duplication and choices between menu and boxes. It is really-really overburdened. For example, no need to say "use ...

Anatoly techtonik
Mar 22, 2013 at 8:26 am
Mar 22, 2013 at 8:26 am

19	[Catalog-sig] API for uploading packages to PyPI

Hi, I understand that this will make PyPI a potential target for automated spam bots, but still it will be awesome to have an API to upload packages to PyPI. For example, I have a code that extract ...

Anatoly techtonik
Mar 22, 2013 at 7:37 am
Mar 23, 2013 at 12:11 pm

8	[Catalog-sig] Access to Windows' cert store

Hi, the message is slightly off-topic but it might be interesting for pip, setuptools and other developers that are working on HTTPS for PyPI. I while ago I found C++ example code that shows how to ...

Christian Heimes
Mar 21, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Mar 21, 2013 at 4:22 pm

2	[Catalog-sig] Updated PEP 438

I've pushed the latest PEP to the repos. It has all the recent clarifications and the API docs. Just need to wait for the website to rebuild or something. Unless there's any last-minute problems I'll ...

Richard Jones
Mar 21, 2013 at 12:30 am
Mar 21, 2013 at 6:45 am

7	[Catalog-sig] Replacement client for pep381client

Hi, as you might be aware, I've done my share on bitching about my mirror (f.pypi.python.org) breaking. I have picked pep381client apart yesterday and rebuilt it - mostly from ground up. You can find ...

Christian Theune
Mar 20, 2013 at 11:59 pm
Mar 25, 2013 at 5:45 pm

15	[Catalog-sig] PEP 438 implementation on testpypi

Thanks to Donald Stufft for his implementation of the PEP 438 changes, I've made them live on testpypi.python.org - specifically the "urls" page of package administration. Please poke and play ...

Richard Jones
Mar 20, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Mar 20, 2013 at 11:32 pm

21	[Catalog-sig] V4 Pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting on PYPI

Hi all, in particular Philip, Marc-Andre, Donald, Carl and me decided to simplify the PEP and avoid the somewhat awkward ``simple/-with-externals`` index for various reasons, among them Marc-Andre's ...

Holger krekel
Mar 15, 2013 at 9:29 am
Mar 19, 2013 at 12:48 am

1	[Catalog-sig] ResponseNotReady error while trying to do fresh sync

Hello, I'm maintaining e.pypi.python.org (with Aron Xu). We met some issues on our network attached storage, so we decided to do a fresh sync of pypi. We met an issue while doing that, we got an ...

Qijiang Fan
Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 am
Mar 21, 2013 at 2:27 am

15	[Catalog-sig] V3 PEP-draft for transitioning to pypi-hosting of release files

Hi all, after some more discussions and hours spend by Carl Meyer (who is now co-authoring the PEP) and me, here is a new V3 pre-submit draft. It is now more ambitious than the previous draft as ...

Holger krekel
Mar 13, 2013 at 11:21 am
Mar 15, 2013 at 4:10 pm

13	[Catalog-sig] A modest proposal for securing PyPI with TUF

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce our demonstration of PyPI and pip with TUF. Firstly, we solicit your thoughts and comments on our design document for integrating PyPI with TUF ...

Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy
Mar 13, 2013 at 6:41 am
Mar 18, 2013 at 6:15 am

6	[Catalog-sig] setuptools/distribute/easy_install/pkg_resource sorting algorithm

I've run into a weird issue with easy_install, that I'm trying to solve: If I place two files named egenix_mxodbc_connect_client-2.0.2-py2.6.egg ...

M.-A. Lemburg
Mar 12, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Mar 14, 2013 at 9:03 pm

20	[Catalog-sig] V2 pre-PEP: transitioning to release file hosting on PYPI

Hi all, below is the new PEP pre-submit version (V2) which incorporates the latest suggestions and aims at a rapidly deployable solution. Thanks in particular to Philip, Donald and Marc-Andre. I also ...

Holger krekel
Mar 12, 2013 at 11:38 am
Mar 14, 2013 at 2:45 pm

13	[Catalog-sig] A 90% Solution

Just a thought, but... If 90% of PyPI projects do not have any external files to download, then, wouldn't it make sense to: 1. Add a project-level option to enable or disable the adding of the rel="" ...

PJ Eby
Mar 11, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:28 pm

7	[Catalog-sig] PyPI/pip security: waiting for input

Hi Justin, just a quick reminder that we are still waiting for you guys to move over and start actually doing something. Are you going to draft a document on how exactly we can use TUF within the ...

Giovanni Bajo
Mar 11, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Mar 11, 2013 at 10:18 pm

84	[Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

Hi Donald, Richard, Nick, Philip, Marc-Andre, all, after some more thinking i wrote a simplified PEP draft for transitioning hosting of release files to pypi.python.org. A PEP is warranted IMO ...

Holger krekel
Mar 10, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Mar 13, 2013 at 5:41 pm

1	[Catalog-sig] transition to pypi-hosting through server-side changes

Hi all, i think Philip Eby brought up a very worthwhile idea to consider: if we can transition to a no-external-hosting situation by making pypi-server changes without requiring client-side ...

Holger krekel
Mar 9, 2013 at 7:22 am
Mar 9, 2013 at 8:05 am

11	[Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

Hello, It seems the PyPI search engine is quite crude and doesn't try to make the results relevant at all. For example, if I'm trying to search "agi" in the hope of finding modules relevant to the ...

Antoine Pitrou
Mar 8, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Mar 10, 2013 at 7:59 pm

43	[Catalog-sig] Deprecation of External Urls, Statistics

So I updated my script (had to remove eventlet) and I believe it's now accurate. The total time was ~54 hours so this is hardly scientific but it should give a good idea what sort of impact we are ...

Donald Stufft
Mar 8, 2013 at 1:40 am
Mar 9, 2013 at 7:20 pm

2	[Catalog-sig] Inconsistency on f.pypi.python.org with Products.PluggableAuthService

Hi, it seems my fight to keep f.pypi.python.org is at least keeping the pypi-mirrors.org page happy. Unfortunately one ouf our users detected another inconsistency that the mirror script doesn't find ...

Christian Theune
Mar 5, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Mar 12, 2013 at 4:04 pm

8	[Catalog-sig] revoked certificate error on chrome from PyPI?

Hi All, When I go to PyPI on an older Chrome, I get a certificate revoked error and can't view the site. What's going on here? Works fine in newer chromes, but interested to know why older chrome ...

Chris Withers
Mar 5, 2013 at 9:51 am
Mar 5, 2013 at 11:41 am

0	[Catalog-sig] PEP 425 / 427 compatibility tags

The compatibility tags are specified in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0425/ and are first used with PEP 427. The scheme defines a tag which is a combination of implementation, abi, and platform ...

Daniel Holth
Mar 1, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Mar 1, 2013 at 8:25 pm

13	[Catalog-sig] homepage/download metadata cleaning

Hi Richard, all, somewhere deep in the threads i mentioned i wrote a little "cleanpypi.py" script which takes a project name as an argument and then goes to pypi.python.org and removes all ...

Holger krekel
Mar 1, 2013 at 10:19 am
Mar 2, 2013 at 5:08 am

3	[Catalog-sig] remove historic download/homepage links for a project

I wasn't claiming any right: I was arguing that anybody who shares software with the community does the community a disservice by removing a release because it "has serious bugs." Brown-bag releases ...

Tres Seaver
Mar 1, 2013 at 3:08 am
Mar 1, 2013 at 7:35 am

23	[Catalog-sig] PyPI terms

Noah, I understand that you desperately do not want to admit that the PSF requirement for uploading to it servers is unusually broad, because you do not want to admit that rational people might have ...

Terry Reedy
Mar 1, 2013 at 1:31 am
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:07 am

0	[Catalog-sig] Pypi cdn for hosted packages

Just an aside, can we use a pythonhosted.org domain, like https://packages.pythonhosted.org/ or something? That will prevent gifar like attacks where someone finds a way to create a file that both ...

Donald Stufft
Mar 1, 2013 at 12:13 am
Mar 1, 2013 at 12:13 am

0	[Catalog-sig] pip-1.3rc1 with SSL cert support available for testing

see the first email in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-virtualenv/foXxh-NpdGg/discussion It explains how to run the pip RC (and the virtualenv RC) without affecting your current ...

Marcus Smith
Feb 24, 2013 at 2:49 am
Feb 24, 2013 at 2:49 am

3	[Catalog-sig] Can't upload to PyPI

Since the PyPI security notice of 2013-02-15 I've been unable to upload to PyPI via "setup.py upload". I changed my password during the grace period, and have reset it, but it's still rejected ...

MRAB
Feb 22, 2013 at 2:55 am
Feb 24, 2013 at 12:21 am

1	[Catalog-sig] Continuous deployment, in-house PyPi repo and artifact promotion

1) Which PyPi repository servers are the most mature and feature rich, and therefore the best choice at the moment? 2) Do any of the PyPi repository servers support managing multiple local ...

James Carpenter
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:21 pm
May 18, 2013 at 9:31 pm

12	[Catalog-sig] User profile: PGP Key ID

Hi! I noticed that in the user profile, the PGP Key ID is 8 hex digits only. This is a bad idea: http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html Honestly I don't know what that Key ...

Bernhard Seibold
Feb 20, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Feb 20, 2013 at 10:50 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] Problems with pep381client

Hello, I've been trying to set up a private Pypi mirror at my place of employment using the pep381client v1.5. The script has bombed at various places while trying to download packages over the last ...

Brian Long
Feb 20, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Feb 20, 2013 at 4:37 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] Updated DNS for pythonhosted.org

Minor thing hopefully, but just updated the DNS for python hosted.org to hit the load balancer instead of PyPI directly. HTTPS is supported at the LB level, but this isn't really being exposed yet ...

Noah Kantrowitz
Feb 20, 2013 at 5:46 am
Feb 20, 2013 at 5:46 am

10	[Catalog-sig] Remove pypi redirects

I'm getting slammed with complaints from users with the SSL redirs on pypi - we need to shut them off until we can properly debug it and/or teach pip/etc to play nice with https.

Jesse Noller
Feb 19, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Feb 19, 2013 at 10:48 pm

7	[Catalog-sig] Massive download problems using https://

Hi there, since the switch to https:// I have massive problems running larger buildouts. After every second or third pulled package I receive a connection reset by peer error. Andreas A non-text ...

Andreas Jung
Feb 19, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Feb 19, 2013 at 3:47 pm

24	[Catalog-sig] HTTPS now promoted on PyPI

Hi all, I've just altered the nginx configuration to promote (ie. redirect to) HTTPS for all GET/HEAD requests. This includes HSTS, but I've set the lifetime to 1 day just in case there's some HTTPS ...

Richard Jones
Feb 19, 2013 at 5:13 am
Feb 20, 2013 at 3:57 am

1	[Catalog-sig] PyPI password policy

I'm guessing https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi/ isn't up to date because I can't find the following error though it does hit me: Some prefer extremely long lowercase passwords. http://xkcd.com/936/ I ...

Yuval Greenfield
Feb 18, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Feb 18, 2013 at 7:10 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] Problem switching to https://pypi.python.org/pypi (and work-around)

I wanted to switch to the HTTPS address of PyPI today, but the change in my .pypirc did not result in the expected seemless upgrade ;-) Here's my working .pypirc (fairly standard): """ [distutils] ...

M.-A. Lemburg
Feb 18, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Feb 18, 2013 at 1:04 pm

20	[Catalog-sig] New PyPI stats available

Hi all, A few people are retrieving package download stats and I've been approached by yet another potential user so I've quickly thrown together a script that dumps the total download counts for all ...

Richard Jones
Feb 18, 2013 at 3:17 am
Mar 18, 2013 at 9:41 pm

2	[Catalog-sig] Tried to do a release on PyPI today

Hi all, I've just tried to do a release on PyPI. First I tried with `python setup.py register sdist upload -s` (with https configured in ~/.pypirc). I got "Upload failed (401): You must be identified ...

Jannis Leidel
Feb 17, 2013 at 2:01 pm
Feb 18, 2013 at 11:00 pm

0	[Catalog-sig] http://cheeseshop.python.org/ returns 503

http://cheeseshop.python.org/ returning 503 seems to be new since the cert change? Is this intentional? trying to sort out a few pip test failures. there's an older test getting links from here ...

Marcus Smith
Feb 16, 2013 at 11:38 pm
Feb 16, 2013 at 11:38 pm

2	[Catalog-sig] Error while trying to do a fresh mirror sync

Hi, while trying to resync my "d" mirror (it's offline at the moment) I stumbled over the following traceback. Can anyone make any sense out of that? /var/www# /usr/local/bin/pep381run /var/www/pypi ...

Jannis Leidel
Feb 16, 2013 at 10:57 am
Feb 19, 2013 at 9:46 am

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