On 12/23/2009 1:19 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
What /packages/source/ lacks is: 1/ Missing packages (eg: Twisted is not there); which is why easy_install/pip had to resolve to scrapping project webpages for guessing download links. In CPAN, almost all module authors upload their sources via PAUSE. 2/ No metadata: When only source tarballs are stored [pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/Pylons/], what is the reliable way to a) get the source for latest version, b) get the source for a particular version? In CPAN [cpan.org/modules/by-module/AppConfig/ABW/], each tarball has a .meta file describing the module metadata (similar to PKG-INFO). I don't want XmlRpc, but just files/directories (note simplicity in Steffen's post).
3/ Indices such as http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.mtime.html (or TXT files) to get a) recently released packages, b) list of release versions for a particular package, and so on (which would obviate the XmlRpc interface)
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