At 03:53 PM 9/13/2009 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Maybe the solution would be to add in that page only the latest
home URL link..
That would solve this specific problem. I'm not so sure it would solve
the general problem: what if some package *wishes* to provide different
homepage URLs for different releases, and has them all working
simultaneously?
When easy_install was written, the only links it could find were
those to "unhidden" versions, and older versions were hidden by default.
IIRC, the URLs of "hidden" versions were added to the "simple" API
after user complaints about not being able to access non-current
versions... thus creating the current problem.
Basically, one is stuck with either timeouts or un-findable old
versions in the case where a maintainer is not keeping their links tidy.
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