> On Sep 18, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What about an approach where pip first tries the canonical name, and if that
> fails, tries the exact given name?
>
> Seems to me like that should handle legacy mirrors without the big download.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
The exact implementation I had in mind has the /simple/{name}/{version}/ url
being removed immediately since it’s a cost that's *always* paid if you use ==
and as far as I know it's not supported/used anywhere. However the fallback to
/simple/ would go through the 2 release deprecation cycle since it's both
actually useful for use with older mirrors and it's only paid if it needs to
be used right now.
I think that the deprecation cycle is probably fine to handle that, because
even if we do as you suggested we'll still need to fall back to /simple/
because of cases like ``pip install django`` where the "real" name is Django
and we have no way of knowing that.
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