> Too bad the tools were not taught to use the synonym above (assuming it > would work for them). Would it be possible for the server to immediately > return the boilerplate sidebar and header before returning the sorted > list a few seconds later. For people, it would be more reassuring to see > a partial response immediately. > > It seems to me that tools would be better off with just the list itself > without the surrounding stuff that they have to ignore (filter out). > Also, tools could be sent an unsorted list that they could sort locally > if they needed it. I suspect most do not, or only need sorting after > filtering.
Tools might have switched to http://pypi.python.org/simple/ several years ago, then they would have gotten all what you are proposing already. I don't see how your reasoning helps in the current state, assuming some tools still do access /pypi/. I just checked the logs: yesterday, there were 233 accesses to the URL from user agents with "urllib" in their names, mostly "Python-urllib/2.5 setuptools/0.6c5" "Python-urllib/2.7" "Python-urllib/2.7 distribute/0.6.27" There are also some interesting referrers: http://www.python.org/download/ (just fixed) http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/QuickInstallGuide Besides spiders and regular browsers, the only non-urllib access came from "AppEngine-Google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid: feediscovery)" Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
