Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Mapping between python packages and distro packages? Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 13:34:20 +1100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20151118032903.GA8040@sg1> <85vb90c4fv.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <20151120221457.GA7590@sg1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de j2EkNidcH7oPhtqp9IXuoAkMMvybPWE5KaMNtO4l0FWg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:JX4olsx/jpvgVn5trlHc/sH2yFw= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'motivated': 0.05; 'tries': 0.05; 'puts': 0.07; 'pypi': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.14; '(another': 0.16; 'installer.': 0.16; 'name).': 0.16; 'organised': 0.16; 'quoted': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'stephane': 0.16; 'subject:Mapping': 0.16; 'subject:between': 0.16; 'wirtel': 0.16; 'library,': 0.18; 'requests': 0.25; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'url:wikipedia': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'url:wiki': 0.30; 'probably': 0.31; 'problem': 0.33; 'but': 0.36; 'instead': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'operating': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'building': 0.38; 'material': 0.39; 'url:en': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; "you'll": 0.61; 'address': 0.61; 'provide': 0.61; 'between': 0.65; 'fundamental': 0.66; 'fact,': 0.67; 'reply': 0.68; 'future,': 0.70; 'social': 0.71; 'technology,': 0.71; '_o__)': 0.84; 'irrelevant': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:99191 Stephane Wirtel writes: > in fact, I would like to have a database where I want the requests > library, I will get the python-requests for debian/ubuntu and the > right package for the yum installer. Okay. That's a pretty simple technical problem (a simple relation between PyPI distribution name, GNU+Linux operating system name, and package name). Of course, *populating* that database, *verifying* the ambiguous inputs, and *maintaining* that database into the future, are all social problems. You'll probably need an organised group of people to address it. I'm not aware of any sufficiently motivated group of people to put in the ongoing effort to provide what you want. (Another social problem is convincing people not to top-post, but instead to reply interleaved and trim irrelevant quoted material .) -- \ “Anyone who puts a small gloss on [a] fundamental technology, | `\ calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from | _o__) building on it, is a thief.” —Tim O'Reilly, 2000-01-25 | Ben Finney