We're revamping the web interface to match the new pdo style. We've also
cleaned a bit of the interface up.
Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. It assumes that baseURL/projectname will get to the current version
> of projectname, or a page with a list of projectname's active versions
>
> 2. It assumes that links within PyPI of the form
> baseURL/something1/something2 are links to version 'something2' of a
> project named 'something1'
>
> 4. It assumes that if baseURL/projectname returns a page containing the
> text "Index of Packages</title>", it is a list of links of the form
> described in #2.
>
> 5. It looks for and follows the first links following the strings
> "<th>Home Page" and "<th>Download URL" in a project page.
These remain unchanged.
> 3. It assumes that going to baseURL directly will result in a page with
> links to all available packages in the form described in #2.
This has been removed as it seems completely unnecessary (a flat listing of all
1400+ packages, that is). The XML-RPC interface provides the functionality you
require here.
> Also note that even with an XML-RPC interface, easy_install will *still*
> need to read an HTML page to gather links, because it's valid for people
> to provide links in their long_description using reStructuredText. It's
> just that assumptions 1, 3, and 4 (and maybe 5) would not be necessary.
You couldn't just call release_data and parse URLs out of the description text
with a simple re search?
> Hm. I just tried to make multiple versions of PEAK active, and it seems
> like you can't get the page that lists multiple versions any more. No
> wonder some people have been having problems downloading older versions
> of certain packages. :(
Whoopsie. This has been fixed. Not sure when it was changed or why.
> What do you mean? You can run "easy_install -u setuptools" to upgrade
> to the latest release at any time. But it doesn't go out looking for
> updates on its own.
Automatically updating existing users to use the xml-rpc would be nice, I
suppose.
Richard
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