pypiserver 0.1.3

minimal pypi server

Authors:

Ralf Schmitt <[e-mail]>

Table of Contents

• Installation and Usage/Quickstart

• Alternative Installation as standalone script

• Detailed Usage

• Optional dependencies

• Source

• Bugs

• License

• Similar Projects

pypiserver is a minimal PyPI compatible server. It can be used to serve a set of packages and eggs to easy_install or pip.

Installation and Usage/Quickstart

pypiserver will work with python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. It will not work with python versions >= 3 or < 2.5.

Run the following commands to get your PyPI server up and running:

pip install pypiserver
mkdir ~/packages
# copy some source packages or eggs to this directory
pypi-server -p 8080 ~/packages
pip install -i http://localhost:8080/simple/ ...

Alternative Installation as standalone script

The git repository contains a ‘pypi-server-standalone.py’ script, which is a single python file ready to be executed without any other dependencies.

Run the following commands to download the script with wget:

wget https://raw.github.com/schmir/pypiserver/standalone/pypi-server-standalone.py
chmod +x pypi-server-standalone.py

or with curl:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/schmir/pypiserver/standalone/pypi-server-standalone.py
chmod +x pypi-server-standalone.py

The server can then be started with:

./pypi-server-standalone.py

Feel free to rename the script and move it into your $PATH.

Detailed Usage

pypi-server -h will print a detailed usage message:

pypi-server [OPTIONS] [PACKAGES_DIRECTORY]
  start PyPI compatible package server serving packages from
  PACKAGES_DIRECTORY. If PACKAGES_DIRECTORY is not given on the
  command line, it uses the default ~/packages.

pypi-server understands the following options:

  -p PORT, --port PORT
    listen on port PORT (default: 8080)

  -i INTERFACE, --interface INTERFACE
    listen on interface INTERFACE (default: 0.0.0.0, any interface)

  -r PACKAGES_DIRECTORY, --root PACKAGES_DIRECTORY
    [deprecated] serve packages from PACKAGES_DIRECTORY

  --server METHOD
    use METHOD to run the server. Valid values include paste,
    cherrypy, twisted, gunicorn, gevent, wsgiref, auto. The
    default is to use "auto" which chooses one of paste, cherrypy,
    twisted or wsgiref.

pypi-server -h
pypi-server --help
  show this help message

pypi-server --version
  show pypi-server's version

Visit http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver for more information.

Optional dependencies

• pypiserver ships with it’s own copy of bottle. It’s possible to use bottle with different wsgi servers. pypiserver chooses any of the following paste, cherrypy, twisted, wsgiref (part of python) if available.

Source

Source releases can be downloaded from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver

https://github.com/schmir/pypiserver carries a git repository of the in-development version.

Use:

git clone https://github.com/schmir/pypiserver.git

to create a copy of the repository, then:

git pull

inside the copy to receive the latest version.

Bugs

pypiserver does not implement the full API as seen on PyPI. It implements just enough to make easy_install and pip install work.

The following limitations are known:

• pypiserver doesn’t support uploading files. One might also consider that a feature. scp provides a nice workaround.

• pypiserver doesn’t implement the XMLRPC interface: pip search will not work.

• pypiserver doesn’t implement the json based ‘/pypi’ interface. pyg uses that and will not work.

Please use github’s bugtracker https://github.com/schmir/pypiserver/issues if you find any other bugs.

License

pypiserver contains a copy of bottle which is available under the MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2010, Marcel Hellkamp.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

The remaining part is distributed under the zlib/libpng license:

Copyright (c) 2011 Ralf Schmitt

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
   claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
   in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
   appreciated but is not required.

2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
   misrepresented as being the original software.

3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
   distribution.

Similar Projects

There are lots of other projects, which allow you to run your own PyPI server. If pypiserver doesn’t work for you, try one of the following alternatives:

chishop (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chishop)

a django based server, which also allows uploads

simplepypi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplepypi)

a twisted based solution, which allows uploads

ClueReleaseManager (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ClueReleaseManager)

Werkzeug based solution, allows uploads

haufe.eggserver (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/haufe.eggserver)

GROK/Zope based, allows uploads

scrambled (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scrambled)

doesn’t require external dependencies, no uploads.

EggBasket (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/EggBasket)

TurboGears based, allows uploads