On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:10 AM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 07:01:49AM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:48 AM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> JSON-RPC is a better choice for recommended external API,
>>>> because it doesn't rely on memory hungry and potentially unsafe
>>>> XML libraries.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
>>>>> Just a quick FYI that the last missing piece (search) for XMLRPC was
>>>>> merged in
>>>>> Warehouse today. If you have an application that depends on XMLRPC on
>>>>> PyPI and
>>>>> you’d like to test it, please try against the url:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://pypi-preview.a.ssl.fastly.net/pypi
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if you find any issues, or you can file a bug at:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/pypa/warehouse
>>>
>>> XMLRPC is used in order to maintain compatibility with what is already
>>> there. Something better will replace it eventually and XMLRPC will be
>>> deprecated.
>>
>> This is a bit confusing to me now.
>>
>> You're reacting as if anatoly suggested a new JSON interface to
>> replace the legacy XML-RPC one.
>
> Well specifically he said JSON-RPC is better than XMLRPC which sounds like
> he was disagreeing with Warehouse implementing the XMLRPC interface. If
> that wasn’t the case then I misunderstood :) I don’t think an RPC interface
> is really needed at all for PyPI.
Let me clarify to avoid further speculations.
1. I forgot that PyPI exposes JSON API
2. I expressed concern that XMLRPC is promoted for integration with PyPI and
it should not, because it is ineffective
>> But the old PyPI codebase already had a JSON API[1]. I'm using it to keep
>> track of Python 3 support status of about 800 packages maintained by the
>> Zope Foundation: http://zope3.pov.lt/py3/
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPIJSON
>>
>> I assume at some point Warehouse will add support for the JSON API and
>> you'll issue a call for testing?
>
> Richard has actually already implemented it! But in testing it just now I see
> it
> is failing on the server but isn’t locally for me so I’ll need to see why
> that is the
> case.
So yes. "Use JSON API, but test XMLRPC for compatibility" is the thing I
expected to hear. =)
--
anatoly t.
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