On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:03:33 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why not? ;) > >That was actually what I was afraid the reasoning was ;) > >I guess I just go all wobbly in the knees at the thought of having to maintain >a "screen scraping" interface. > >Funnily enough, Johannes Gisjbers, Andrew Dalke and I were talking about this >very issue last night. I proposed that we detect the user-agent of the >setuptools client, and in response send back really minimalist HTML (no >surrounding page template). Probably overkill, but this may have been after >we'd had beer :)
Making this explicit actually makes it a good idea. http://host/pypiurl?format=simple It doesn't even have to be html at this point, either. Return a nicely structured xml or csv or whatever document. And then you can completely omit setuptools hints from the actual markup, since setuptools won't ever care about that. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list Catalog-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
