On 15.05.2014 01:03, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 15 May 2014 01:07, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> >> I’ve just published a draft of PEP 470 - Using Multi Index Support for > External to PyPI Package File Hosting >> >> You can see this online at http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0470/ or > read below >> > > For the record: I reviewed Donald's initial draft of this PEP and did some > light copy editing when adding it to the PEPs repo, so this PEP can be > taken as reflecting my perspective as well. > > Of the two currently implemented external hosting mechanisms, the "multiple > indexes" model is more general, more explicit, easier to implement, much > easier to explain and has much cleaner failure modes than the link > spidering mechanism. The only missing piece is automated external index > discovery, so adding that is included as part of this PEP. That federated > discovery mechanism then clears the way for eventually dropping the link > spidering mechanism (and all its associated complexity and complications) > entirely.
+1 on the general idea. I do have some issue with some aspects of the PEP and will respond in more detail in a separate email. With regard to the index discovery, I'd like to suggest that we use the existing download_url for this - along the lines I had suggested last year and what eGenix is already using for such index pages already (we switched to it as proof of concept last year). I'll work out a proposal and send it here later this week. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 15 2014) >>> 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/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
