Hello all,
I’ve been following and working on the search portion of PyPI for some time and noticed it’s a part of Warehouse that generates some frustration among users.
Some time ago opened a meta issue to try to establish some use cases and give narrow down what is it that users expect from searching in PyPI. I thought it be good to open up this discussion to a wider audience.
Here are the use cases I distilled from the different issues in Warehouse:
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Project name searches : users that have a vague recollection of the name of a package or want to make sure of the spelling before installing. I believe this is the main use case for
pip search
. (#5506). - Solution searches : users that would like to know what the best package is for a particular task. This could be covered by a “popularity” metric however it’s hard to get right as there’s a lot of aggregated community wisdom that is just not reflected in terms of project metadata as names, classifiers and descriptions are sometimes lacking or misleading. (#3932, #3860)
- Meta searches : users that would like to explore the project ecosystem based project metadata like interpreter versions, license, contributors, etc. (#727, #1971)
The goal would be to define these or more use cases and a set of requirements for them to start creating some issues in Warehouse.
Thanks in advance.