On 27 March 2018 at 09:35, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:16:26 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >> The new Python Package Index at https://pypi.org is now in beta. >> >> This means the site is robust, but we anticipate needing more user >> testing and changes before it is "production-ready" and can fully >> replace https://pypi.python.org . We hope to complete the transition >> before the end of April 2018. > > Ah, excellent, we can finally get rid of the unending nightmare that was > the nice, clean, readable PyPI design and replace it with something full > of unnecessary swaths of bold colours and low-contrast light-blue text on > blue background. Yay! > > By the way, on the search page: > > https://pypi.org/search/ > > > it says "Enter a search query above, or select a filter from the list of > classifiers on the left" but there is no such filter or list of > classifiers.
Do you not get the section """ Filter Projects By Programming Language By License By Framework ... """ on the left of the page? Or is it just that it's not clear that this is what's meant by "the list of classifiers"? It did take me a moment to realise that "classifiers" meant this - maybe a less technical term[1] like "filters" would help here? You could raise an issue on https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues if you think it's worth changing. (Same is true of your comment about the site design, although I suspect it's a bit late for that to be changed in the immediate future - the site design has been basically unchanged since very early in the redesign. Personally, I agree it's a bit "in your face", but not bad enough that I felt it was worth flagging as an issue). Paul [1] "Classifiers" is what the relevant package metadata is called, but it's not exactly what the average user would refer to that data as. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
