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chris at gonnerman

Jul 29, 2012, 6:26 PM

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PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid

I've been making some minor updates to the PollyReports module I
announced a while back, and I've noticed that when I upload it to PyPI,
my changelog (CHANGES.txt) doesn't appear to be integrated into the site
at all. Do I have to put the changes into the README, or have I missed
something here? It seems that there should be some automatic method
whereby PyPI users could easily see what I've changed without
downloading it first.
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ben+python at benfinney

Jul 29, 2012, 9:00 PM

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Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid [In reply to]

Chris Gonnerman <chris [at] gonnerman> writes:

> I've been making some minor updates to the PollyReports module

Your post is showing up as a reply to a thread about IEEE-784 floats,
because you created your message as a reply. Consequently, it's rather
confusing why you suddenly start talking about PollyReports.

If you want to attract attention to an unrelated topic, it's best if you
don't reply to an existing thread; instead, start a new thread by
composing a new message to the forum.

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dieter at handshake

Jul 30, 2012, 2:20 AM

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Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid [In reply to]

Chris Gonnerman <chris [at] gonnerman> writes:

> I've been making some minor updates to the PollyReports module I
> announced a while back, and I've noticed that when I upload it to
> PyPI, my changelog (CHANGES.txt) doesn't appear to be integrated into
> the site at all. Do I have to put the changes into the README, or
> have I missed something here? It seems that there should be some
> automatic method whereby PyPI users could easily see what I've changed
> without downloading it first.

"CHANGES.txt" is not automatically presented.
If necessary, you must integrate it into the "long description".

However, personally, I am not interested in all the details (typically
found in "CHANGES.txt") but some (often implicit) information is
sufficient for me: something like "major API change", "minor bug
fixes". Thus, think carefully what you put on the overview page.

I find it very stupid to see several window scrolls of changes for
a package but to learn how to install the package, I have to download its
source...

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chris at gonnerman

Jul 30, 2012, 5:46 AM

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Re: [Python] Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid [In reply to]

On 07/29/2012 11:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Your post is showing up as a reply to a thread about IEEE-784 floats,
> because you created your message as a reply. Consequently, it's rather
> confusing why you suddenly start talking about PollyReports. If you
> want to attract attention to an unrelated topic, it's best if you
> don't reply to an existing thread; instead, start a new thread by
> composing a new message to the forum.
My apologies. I did not consider that headers I can't see might be
being sent along.
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