The new version of PyPI changed the third assumption below, breaking setuptools' ability to do fallback searches for a request whose upper/lowercase didn't precisely match the cases used by the package author. Is there any chance someone could revert this, since this breaks a ton of software in the field?
At 06:22 PM 6/5/2005 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: >For the benefit of the PyPI maintainers, here is a summary of EasyInstall's >fairly minimal assumptions about PyPI's current behavior, assuming that >"base-url" is the root URL of the package index: > > * Going to "base-url/SomePackage" produces an HTML page that either has >a title containing "Index of Packages" and links to zero or more pages for >specific versions, or else it is a single-version package page. > > * Single-version package pages may have a home page and download URL >link, each of which occurs after '<th>Home Page' and '<th>Download URL' >respectively, if present. > > * Going to "base-url/" (note trailing '/') produces an HTML page >containing links to all active versions of registered packages > > * Links to package pages always have URLs of the form >"base-url/SomePackage/itsVersion" - i.e., exactly two path parts following >the base URL, with no query strings, parameters, fragments, etc. > >EasyInstall should continue to work with PyPI if these assumptions continue >to hold. _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list Catalog-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
