On 28 August 2014 19:58, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > To fix this I'm going to modify PyPI so that it uses the normalized name in > the /simple/ URL and redirects everything else to the non-normalized name. > I'm also going to submit a PR to bandersnatch so that it will use normalized > names for it's directories and such as well. These two changes will make it so > that the client side will know ahead of time exactly what form the server > expects > any given name to be in. This will allow a change in pip to happen which > will pre-normalize all names which will make the interaction with mirrors > better and will reduce the number of HTTP requests that a single ``pip > install`` > needs to make.
Just to clarify, this means that if I want to find the simple index page for a distribution, without hitting redirects, I should first normalise the project name (so "Django" becomes "django") and then request https://pypi.python.org/simple/<normalised_name>/ (with a slash on the end). Is that correct? It seems to match what I see in practice (in particular, the version without a terminating slash redirects to the version with a terminating slash). The JSON API has the opposite behaviour - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Django/json redirects to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django/json. Should that not be changed to match? Will it be? Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
