This page documents the development of the Python Cheese Shop:

• http://cheeseshop.python.org

The PyPI (packages index, Cheese Shop web interface) code resides in SVN at:

• https://svn.python.org/packages/ (trunk,features,branches)

Requests for new Trove categories:

• Python frameworks with plugins or packages that target the framework can get their own category. The category should only be added *after* such packages exist. Complimentary packages can link to each other from their descriptions, they do not need a category to link them together; only when packages are provided by different people does a category need to be created. To ask for a category email

  catalog-sig@python.org.

Patches and bug reports should be submitted to:

• http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66150&atid=513503

Discussion about the Cheese Shop should be had on the Catalog SIG mailing list:

• http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig

XML-RPC Interface

The Cheese Shop has an XML-RPC interface. See CheeseShopXmlRpc for details.

TO-DO list

• [http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0345.html PEP for metadata 1.2] -- not finished and needs more catalog-sig discussion)

• edit [http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0243.html PEP 243] to reflect reality

• auto-generate download_urls for package uploads
• command-line tool to query pypi and fetch entries
• DOAP support
• documented procedures for "taking over" entries should the original owner of the entry go away (and any required system support)
• better searching (eg. single search box on the front page)
• tooltips for field labels
• change notification emails

• auto-compute [http://pycheesecake.org Cheesecake] scores

• moderated user reviews and ratings
• strip leading whitespace from description before ReST

Something that's been requested, but needs much more thought and analysis to see whether it causes any problems: the ability to treat project names and versions as case-insensitive, while removing extraneous characters (as in pkg_resources.safe_name()) for purposes both of searching and determining name uniqueness when registering.

Development Environment Hints

Before restoring database, "pypi" role must exists:

• createuser pypi

These are notes so we can remember how to dump / restore the packages database:

• pg_dump -Fc -b packages >packages-20060706.dump createdb packages pg_restore -O -d packages -Fc packages-20060706.dump

Ask RichardJones if you need a database dump.

PageTemplates are obtained from:

• svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.pagetemplate/trunk zope. pagetemplate svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.tal/trunk zope.tal svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.interface/trunk zope.interface svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.i18nmessageid/trunk zope.i18nmessageid svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.tales/trunk zope.tales

We also need to install ez_setup and docutils.

Then go ahead and edit pypi.ini and this line in pypi.py:

• cfg = config.Config('/tmp/pypi.ini', 'webui')

if your config.ini isn't in /tmp/pypi.ini. You can leave it as 'config.ini' if it's in the same directory as pypi.py.