[Catalog-sig] RfE: Allow users to upload eggs they did not build themselves

[Gerhard Häring]

Hello,

I'm not sure if that's the right place to ask for enhancements to
easy_install/setuptools?!

I'm just starting with eggs and all the fancy new stuff, and I had
somebody build a MacOS X egg for me, which I tried to upload to PyPI.

Unfortunately, setuptools did not support that out of the box, and I had
to hack a new distutils command that did that, just copying setuptools
upload command and modifying it.

This has now led to this entry in PyPI:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pysqlite/2.0.6

Python Egg 2.4 built on Linux-2.6.12-9-k7-i686-with-glibc2.3
pysqlite-2.0.5-py2.4-macosx-10.4-ppc.egg (md5, sig) 89KB 0

;-)

- -- Gerhard

[Phillip J. Eby]

Post by Gerhard Häring
I'm not sure if that's the right place to ask for enhancements to
easy_install/setuptools?!

See the distutils-sig at python.org instead.

Post by Gerhard Häring
I'm just starting with eggs and all the fancy new stuff, and I had
somebody build a MacOS X egg for me, which I tried to upload to PyPI.
Unfortunately, setuptools did not support that out of the box, and I had
to hack a new distutils command that did that, just copying setuptools
upload command and modifying it.
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pysqlite/2.0.6
Python Egg 2.4 built on Linux-2.6.12-9-k7-i686-with-glibc2.3
pysqlite-2.0.5-py2.4-macosx-10.4-ppc.egg (md5, sig) 89KB 0

Um, a macosx egg built on Linux? :)

Really, if you need to upload a file manually like this, I would suggest
using the PyPI web interface and just uploading it by hand. You can go to
your file management URL from the package, and from there you can delete
the file and then re-upload it, perhaps inserting a more appropriate
comment about the build platform. :)