On 14.03.2013 07:25, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:23 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>> On 13.03.2013 07:28, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>>> 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 set up versioning for something we want to phase out? There will >>>> never be a simple-v3, so this is really overengineering the proposed >>>> change. >>> >>> Who says that we want to phase out the /simple/ index ? >> >> I want to render it redundant, because it's a crazy way to distribute >> completely inadequate metadata. > > Specifically, once we have the infrastructure in place to publish > metadata v2.0 (or a suitable subset) to installation tools, the > relatively impoverished contents of the simple index will be a legacy > interface retained only to preserve the correct operation of existing > tools.
Those two are orthogonal. The index itself is just a bag of things and, as such, one that's very well suited to publish data, since it can easily be exposed in form of static files, which can be put on a CDNs or mirrored using rsync. It's easy to add the metadata file to that index for tools to pick up - in addition to the other data exposed on the index pages and perfectly backwards compatible. As mentioned before, I think we should start publishing the existing metadata stored in the PyPI database on those index pages as PKG-INFO files, so that tools can easily access the data without having to go through XML-RPC. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 14 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
