At 08:44 AM 2/26/2008 +1100, Richard Jones wrote: >PyPI has an xml-rpc interface but it's not being used. > >What are the chances of getting setuptools to change?
See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0365/ for details on what's supposed to (eventually) use the XML-RPC interface. There are no plans for easy_install to use XML-RPC, however. More precisely, easy_install supports simple, statically-generated package indexes (such as simple directory indexes published by Apache). So, to add XML-RPC support, it would be necessary to have failed XML-RPC calls fall back to the existing static index API -- which adds complexity and server round-trips that wouldn't actually benefit anybody. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
