On 08.03.2013 20:16, PJ Eby wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:50 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> So far the only practical problem I've found with the approach >> is that the download page may not contain dynamic data, e.g. >> a date or timestamp, since that causes the hash tag not to >> verify. > > Which is completely unnecessary if one simply exposes the *actual* > download links directly on PyPI. The download page is redundant, in a > couple different ways. First, since it can't change, there's no point > in re-fetching it all the time. Second, since it's only going to be > read by tools anyway, there's no point to it containing anything > besides the link. > > So, since the page only contains links, might as well put the links > straight on PyPI, or at most have an option/tool to load the links > from an external source.
I don't follow you. We only have a single download_url field available to store a download link. We'd need to modify the meta data format to allow for more than one such field, which doesn't work if you want to stay backwards compatible. BTW: If we go with the CDN caching model for external files, we'd pull the download page links directly on the /simple/ index page - as files, not external links. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 07 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig