On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:17 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > On 08.03.2013 20:16, PJ Eby wrote: >> There is, as I said before, a MUCH simpler way to do this, that works >> right now: put direct #md5 download links in your description, and >> phase out the rel="" attributes altogether. > > No, that would be a pretty poor design :-) > > The rel="" attributes are good design, since they were meant for > exactly this purpose (machine reading and understanding relations > between origin and target).
That depends on the goal of your design. If the goal is to phase out offsite spidering by downloader tools in a reasonably easy and low-cost way, introducing new API is not a good way to do it. The simple way to do it is to replace download-time end-user unsupervised spidering with upload-time or registration-time author-supervised spidering, which requires only that the tools exist and people be informed of them (and encouraged to use them). _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
