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diff --git a/TODO.python b/TODO.python new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bed449 --- /dev/null +++ b/TODO.python @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +TODOs +----- + +* if homepage_url (in the pypi metadata for a given pacakge) is a html page, +scrape the page for repo links, this should reduce the number of tarball +imports the tool does. + +* scheme x.y e.g. pip.find_deps should avoid using a '.' makes it more +difficult to import extensions as modules, consider the case where we want +to import pip.find_deps for use in a test suite. + +* prefix cmd to logs, so when we run pip, prefix log msg with 'pip', +same for egg_info etc + +* abstract popen/log, +there is a pattern of calling Popen with stderr=STDOUT and reading +from p.stdout till EOF, then waiting for the subprocess to terminate. +Since this is used in 3 places, it should be factored out really. + +* error messages for constraints is currently a parsed form of the version +number e.g. ('==', ('00000000', '00000000', '00000011', '*final')) +this will be confusing, we should emit nice version numbers. + +* Can we avoid the compilation that happens during import of some packages, +i.e. nixtla + +* need better errmsg if initial package not found on pypi + +* Importing python packages that use pbr fails, see +https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/73/typeerror-dist-must-be-a-distribution#comment-7267980 +The most sensible option would seem to be to make use of the sane environment +that pbr provides: just read the dependency information from the text files +that pbr projects provide, see, http://docs.openstack.org/developer/pbr/ |