On 16-04-20 11:41am, Graham Christensen wrote: > I recently got word that PyPi is changing their URL scheme. > > Old example: > https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-1.8.2.tar.gz#md5=c2ac0e5a4c092dfa84c7e9e51cd45095 > > New example: > https://pypi.python.org/packages/62/18/91f0e5059373e9b87588c2a1c3b4c3c08ee89e0443aa2017469a4cdae41c/SCRY-1.1.2-py2-none-any.whl#md5=a3c636c4e94df1f0644b6917a9c05e67
This is going to be a lot of work. > Yet another option is to run a sort of "translator" service that can > consume > the PyPI JSON API and will output the URLs in whatever format best suites > you. > An example of this is pypi.debian.net (which I don't know where the code > base > for it is, but the proof of concept I wrote for it is at > https://github.com/dstufft/pypi-debian). These translators are fairly > simple, > they take an URL, pull the project and filename out of it and then use > the JSON > API to figure out the "real" URL and then just simply redirects to that. Maybe it’s time to automate what we can? Similar to Hackage? -- Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
