On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 17:48 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > What about an approach where pip first tries the canonical name, and if > that fails, tries the exact given name? > > Seems to me like that should handle legacy mirrors without the big download.
The download could still happen, however, and then you'd have made three requests (especially for non-existing projects). If we introduce a "simple-protocol-api" version, we can avoid all this trying around and provide correct efficient behaviour when using new versions of tools/servers. best, holger _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
