Am 27.07.2010 11:25, schrieb Alexis Metaireau: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 09:52 +0100, Chris Withers wrote: >> there is now a way to request release information in JSON, >>> see http://tinyurl.com/38lefsp > That's indeed cool, and useful, but we can't rely on this while > crawling, too bad this JSON is not replicated on the mirrors. > > It could help a lot, since there is currently no way to request the > metadatas statically in others way that downloading the distribution > archives and extracting them. (we also could use xmlrpc, but that's not > static).
That's not true - you can also use the DOAP records. > > What's the process I have to follow in order to get this mirrored ? Does > that sounds good for you ? IOW, whats needed to have this as a > requirements for mirrors? Discuss on catalog-sig, then propose a change to PEP 381. Notice it is out of scope for the objective of the PEP, though, which is to support continued operation of setuptools-style tools in case of a PyPI outage. I'm not sure what kind of application you have in mind where replication of JSON files would help in case of some failure. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
