On 7/25/2012 8:48 AM, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote:
I would like to suggest redirecting http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ to http://pypi.python.org/pypi
For people, the latter has a [List packages] button that maps to http://pypi.python.org/pypi?action=index
This would break tools who use that URL to fetch the complete list of packages. Old setuptools versions did; not sure whether they are still in use, or whether any other tools fetch the package list from there.
Too bad the tools were not taught to use the synonym above (assuming it would work for them). Would it be possible for the server to immediately return the boilerplate sidebar and header before returning the sorted list a few seconds later. For people, it would be more reassuring to see a partial response immediately.
It seems to me that tools would be better off with just the list itself without the surrounding stuff that they have to ignore (filter out). Also, tools could be sent an unsorted list that they could sort locally if they needed it. I suspect most do not, or only need sorting after filtering.
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