On 5 October 2012 16:40, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, XML-RPC is of course preferable; the current code in distlib is just >> whatever I copied across from packaging, but the next step will be to look >> at the releases which are available from the different sources (XML-RPC, >> PyPI metadata URLs, dependency_links etc.) to see what sorts of things >> wouldn't >> be accessible if we restricted to say, just using XML-RPC. Since all the >> information in the static pages seems to be available via XML-RPC, what is >> the >> point of the simple interface, other than for occasional viewing by a human? > > IIRC the most practical limitation is that the XML-RPC interface > doesn't exist on the mirrors.
That's a good point. Actually, writing a "local PyPI server" is much easier if all you have to implement is the simple static page interface. So I take back some of my objection - both XML-RPC and the static page interface make sense to support. Although it would be nice to have a better definition of precisely what comprises the "simple interface" than looking at the source code of the scraper. (Oh, and I still think the actual PyPI static pages include more links than are necessary, but that's a different issue, and one which would be alleviated by an option to ignore offsite links). Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
