The proper list for this would be distutils-sig as that's where packaging-related discussions typically occur.
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 at 21:22 Cooper Ry Lees <li...@cooperlees.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > First time emailer, so please be kind. Also, if this is not the right > mailing list for PyPA talk, I apologize. Please point me in the right > direction if so. The main reason I have emailed here is I believe it may be > PEP time to standardize the JSON metadata that PyPI makes available, like > what was done for the `'simple API` described in PEP503. > > I've been doing a bit of work on `bandersnatch` (I didn't name it), which > is a PEP 381 mirroring package and wanted to enhance it to also mirror the > handy JSON metadata PyPI generates and makes available @ > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PKG_NAME/json. > > I've done a PR on bandersnatch as a POC that mirrors both the PyPI > directory structure (URL/pypi/PKG_NAME/json) and created a standardizable > URL/json/PKG_NAME that the former symlinks to (to be served by NGINX / some > other proxy). I'm also contemplating naming the directory 'metadata' rather > than JSON so if some new hotness / we want to change the format down the > line we're not stuck with json as the dirname. This PR can be found here: > https://bitbucket.org/pypa/bandersnatch/pull-requests/33/save-json-metadata-to-mirror > > My main use case is to write a very simple async 'verifier' tool that will > crawl all the JSON files and then ensure the packages directory on each of > my internal mirrors (I have a mirror per region / datacenter) have all the > files they should. I sync centrally (to save resource on the PyPI > infrastructure) and then rsync out all the diffs to each region / > datacenter, and under some failure scenarios I could miss a file or many. > So I feel using JSON pulled down from the authoritative source will allow > an async job to verify the MD5 of all the package files on each mirror. > > What are peoples thoughts here? Is it worth a PEP similar to PEP503 going > forward? Can people enhance / share some thoughts on this idea. > > Thanks, > Cooper Lees > m...@cooperlees.com <m...@copperlees.com> > https://cooperlees.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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