[issue8190] Add an xml-rpc client for PyPi

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: We want to add a PyPI client in Distutils2, and PyPI provides these information via XML-RPC. PyPI could probably have a REST interface to grab these info as well, but this is another topic/project. On our side (distutils2), we want to provide a nice set of APIs

[issue8190] Add an xml-rpc client for PyPi

Éric Araujo added the comment: Hello XML-RPC is a legacy protocol that works against the Web, i.e. it does not respect and benefit from the Web architecture. Why not going the REST way? Regards -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker

[issue8190] Add an xml-rpc client for PyPi

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[issue8190] Add an xml-rpc client for PyPi

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: see also http://tools.assembla.com/yolk/browser/trunk/yolk/pypi.py -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue8190] Add an xml-rpc client for PyPi

New submission from Tarek Ziadé : let's add a small xml-rpc client in Distutils2, implementing all functions. See http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc -- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2 messages: 101414 nosy: tarek priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: op