On 12.03.2013 20:46, PJ Eby wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:07 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> Just a quick note (more later, if time permits)... >> >> On 12.03.2013 18:05, holger krekel wrote: >>> Hi Marc-Andre, all, >>> >>>>> - Prepare PYPI implementation to allow a per-project "hosting mode", >>>>> effectively enabling or disabling external crawling. When enabled >>>>> nothing changes from the current situation of producing ``rel=download`` >>>>> and ``rel=homepage`` attributed links on ``simple/`` pages, >>>>> causing installers to crawl those sites. >>>>> When disabled, the attributions of links will change >>>>> to ``rel=newdownload`` and ``rel=newhomepage`` causing installers to >>>>> avoid crawling 3rd party sites. Retaining the meta-information allows >>>>> tools to still make use of the semantic information. >>>> >>>> Please start using versioned APIs for these things. The >>>> old style index should still be available under some >>>> URL, e.g. /simple-v1/ or /v1/simple/ or /1/simple/ >>> >>> Not sure it is neccessary in this case. I would think it makes >>> the implementation harder and it would probably break PEP381 (mirroring >>> infrastructure) as well. >> >> Here's what I meant: >> >> We publish the current implementation of the /simple/ index API >> under a new URL /simple-v1/, so that people that want to use >> the old API can continue to do so. > > Do you know of anyone who's *actually* going to need/use this > alternate API.
I think we should establish a versioned API like that for PyPI to make progress easier. All major web APIs use versioning for this reason. > Why can't they just the XML-RPC API, the DOAP API, or > any other means of obtaining this information? Those cannot easily be put on the CDN and would cause an unnecessary strain on the PyPI server. We could/should probably also make the PKG-INFO meta data file, plus some other static information such as upload/release dates (as RSS/Atom file) available on the /simple/ page to make this easier to use over the CDN. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 12 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
