On Jul 22, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>>> If people do misspell a package name when invoking easy_install, >>>> they get the feature that you consider of no value. >>> That is not correct. Not all packages are in PyPI. Using a >>> package that >>> isn't in PyPI will trigger a fetch of that page. >> >> I don't understand. What page is fetched if the package is not in >> PyPI? > > I think Jim was referring to a package which is *registered* in PyPI, > but whose download location was elsewhere.
No, I was referring to packages that aren't ready for or of interest to PyPI or to proprietary packages. ... > - From my complete ignorance of the underlying architecture: the > polling > solution would stay pretty current if there were an extremely cheap > way > to ask for the latest "transaction ID" on the cheeseshop, or if the > query could fetch only registrations newer than the last poll time. There is such an API thanks to Martin. > Are > such queries possible over the XML-RPC interface? Yup. I'm using them. Queries take only a few milliseconds per request on the server. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
