On 6 August 2013 17:13, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: >> Also, CPAN, like Linux distro trees, can be mirrored with rsync rather >> than needing a custom client. It's much easier to maintain backwards >> compatibility when the only required server API is the ability to >> serve static files. >> > > I will fight any attempt to do this with every fiber of my being. This kind > of "dumb server" API means that any metadata indexing or searching either > needs to be precomputed or implemented in a much more intelligent client. > This is already somewhat the case with pip, and as someone that has to deal > with multiple client implementations it makes me very sad that I can't just > call a REST endpoint to know what will be installed when I do a thing. This > is neither here nor there, but I wanted to stake out my grounds so I can > growl when people get too close :)
I agree having a smart server is good, I just think exposing a dumb, easy to mirror, signed data store is good, too :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
