I tried Tarek's PloneSoftwareCenter branch today. The good news is: IT IS WORKING. Bravo Tarek. If you don't already know it, the branch is about adding PYPI features to PSC.

Used software for test:

  • Plone 3.0.4

  • DataGridField 1.6.0-beta2

  • PloneHelpCenter 1.5.0-beta-5

  • PloneSoftwareCenter (Tarek's branch named pypi)

You need a .pypirc file in your home directory with the username/password for an existing plone user:


[server-login]

username: mustap

password: secret


Now one can easily upload a package to PSC:


$ python2.4 setup.py bdist_egg upload \

  --repository=http://localhost:8080/site1/software-center

running bdist_egg

running egg_info

writing requirements to test.egg-info/requires.txt

writing test.egg-info/PKG-INFO

writing namespace_packages to test.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt

writing top-level names to test.egg-info/top_level.txt

writing dependency_links to test.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

writing entry points to test.egg-info/entry_points.txt

reading manifest file 'test.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

writing manifest file 'test.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

installing library code to build/bdist.linux-i686/egg

running install_lib

running build_py

creating build/bdist.linux-i686/egg

creating build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/plone



... [many output] ...



copying test.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO

creating 'dist/test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-i686/egg' to it

removing 'build/bdist.linux-i686/egg' (and everything under it)

running upload

Submitting dist/test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg to http://localhost:8080/site1/software-center

Server response (200): OK

Great !

and here is how it looks like in plone:


One can use easy_install to install the uploded package:


$ easy_install \

    -f http://localhost:8080/site1/software-center/simple test

Searching for test

Reading http://localhost:8080/site1/software-center/simple

Best match: test 0.1dev

Downloading http://localhost:8080/site1/software-center/test/releases/0.1dev/test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg

Processing test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg

creating /home/mustapha/Projects/pylonsenv/lib/python2.4/site-packages/test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg

Extracting test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg to /home/mustapha/Projects/pylonsenv/lib/python2.4/site-packages

Adding test 0.1dev to easy-install.pth file



Installed /home/mustapha/Projects/pylonsenv/lib/python2.4/site-packages/test-0.1dev-py2.4.egg

Processing dependencies for test

Finished processing dependencies for test


This is really a good step forward to make PSC pypi-compatible.

Try it.