- Create a user at http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi by clicking on the "Register" link and following the instructions.
- Create a setup.py file for your Python project. You're doing this already, aren't you, so your users can install your app or library with disutils?
- Type: python setup.py register
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Python Cheese Shop
It has been a while since I released a new open source project. The last time I dealt with the Python project registry it required a highly manual through-the-web registration process. The Cheese Shop is so much nicer, and the integration with distutils makes it so easy to register a project and release that there is no reason in the world not to do it. There are just a few basic steps to getting started:
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I'm new to this cheese shop thing as a user. I ran into it recently when installing django at work. The setup script wanted to download a python egg from the cheeseshop site, which turned out to be down for at least 30 minutes when I was doing my install. I was kind of bummed that they didn't have a mirroring mechanism built into the process. -Steve
It certainly isn't as sophisticated as CPAN, but it isn't as old either. I believe they discussed adding mirroring at one point. The Catalog SIG archives have some recent discussion of establishing mirrors, but it isn't clear that anything was done.
see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/DITrack/0.6-alpha
DITrack looks interesting. I like the tight integration of Trac with svn, so DITrack may be even better. I'll check it out when there is a web interface.
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