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
• "what's related" using classifiers and possibly user-supplied information

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.cgi:

• 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.

If you wish to test functionality that requires login, then you will need to configure your apache to pass through basic auth. You do this by adding lines similar to the following to your apache2 conf file:

• RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.+)$

  RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/pypi.cgi(.*) /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/pypi.cgi$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]

If this doesn't work, then you can use these lines to debug:

• RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log

  RewriteLogLevel 9