On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > >> >> On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >>> I would like to write a script to automatically register release URLs >>> for PyPI packages. >>> >>> Is the REST API documented somewhere, or is the implementation the >>> spec ? ;-) >>> >>> And related to this: >>> >>> Will there be an option to tell PyPI's CDN to cache the release >>> URL's contents ? >> >> I think you are perhaps confused, the use of external URLs on PyPI is >> formally deprecated. The way you inform the PyPI and the CDN network about >> your package is you upload it to PyPI. pip 1.4 effectively disables "unsafe" >> external URLs, and all external URLs will follow soon. > > Someone reminded me that I'm only partially correct, the external URL stuffs > will continue to be supported, but only as a convenience during package > registration/upload. From the PoV of clients (and the CDN) everything will be > local. > > --Noah > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Noah, External urls are still supported (Although discouraged). Marc-Andre, There is documentation in the PEP, however I have another PEP coming up for a more streamlined upload process that also contains a much nicer method of sending external urls as well. So you might want to wait for that. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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