On 27/05/2020 18.59, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 > Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links >> to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, >> and so on. >> >> I don't know that it needs to be said, but for now, I think we should start >> with a minimalist approach by keeping the API focused on reducing the >> number of *existing* locations to update, rather than predicting what might >> sort of fields might be useful to include. Otherwise, it could very well >> end up becoming more work to maintain compared to what it actually saves. > > Unless unusual fields are required in the returned information, how > about using PyPI as the information store? That way, you don't have to > design a new API and implement a new backend... > > (that doesn't mean PyPI needs to host any downloadable files for Pyhon, > by the way - just the metadata)
Barry and Guido own the Python project on PyPI, https://pypi.org/project/Python/ . There hasn't been an update since 2.5.0 in 2007. Does PyPI still support empty releases without files? I wouldn't mind to upload all sources on PyPI, too. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZRVS4UO5YBA37LFJATKGGM6GMCTL3OZD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
