> - is code behind pypi.python.org available and why i can't find some > up-to-date official document or howto for private pypi repository > (maybe it exists but i just can't find it)?
The code is at https://svn.python.org/packages/ Instructions for installing it are at http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopDev I don't know why you can't find it, perhaps you didn't search long enough. > - since python is used in commercial environments i guess they > actually have private pypi repositories, where can i find docs that > defines what pypi is and how to implement it? IMO, there can't possibly be a "private pypi repository". By (my) definition, PyPI is *the* Python Package Index - anything else holding packages can't be *the* index. So: pypi is a short name for the machine pypi.python.org, and it is not possible to "implement" it elsewhere, unless you have write access to the nameserver of python.org. Maybe you are asking for a specification of how setuptools and easy_install access the index, to build package repositories other than PyPI. This is specified at http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#package-index-api If you are asking for something else, please be more explicit what it is that you ask for. > - can you recommend 1 option (software providing pypi like service) > that can be easily installed and configured as a service running on > apache2/mod_wsgi, has an active community and docs howto setup? If you want a plain package repository, I recommend to use Apache without any additional software. It's possible to provide a package repository completely out of static files - no dynamic code is necessary. > - i did found http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/ - is this the > spec that above mentioned software is based upon? No, that's what the title of the document says: a "Mirroring infrastructure for PyPI". Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
