[Chandler-dev] Chandler new-version detection

[Mike Taylor]

On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 09:41 AM 11/21/2007 -0800, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> Morgen Sagen wrote:
>> > Under the hood it uses urllib, which we can configure to honor  
>> whatever
>> > proxy settings the user has entered in Chandler.  Heikki  
>> mentioned a
>> > desire to use HTTPS which means we would need proxy support for  
>> HTTPS as
>> > well.
>> >
>> > What do people think about using setuptools for new-version  
>> detection?
>>
>> In principle that sounds great; I am not keen on reinventing either.
>>
>> Would this require putting something on cheeseshop for setuptools to
>> detect a new Chandler version, or can you tell setuptools where to  
>> look?
>
> The PackageIndex.find_links(url_list) method will give it specific  
> URLs; these can be any HTML web page, as long as they contain links  
> to directly-downloadable eggs or other easy_install-able  
> distribution formats.  It can also be given a host mask to restrict  
> what hosts it will attempt to connect to (either to read HTML or  
> download other files).

This would be a good reason to have our own PyPI repository to act as  
the primary for "official" upgrades and to act as a backup to the  
normal one for plugins and the like.

That way the "check for upgrade" code can inform setuptools to look  
first on our site for the upgrades.

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