[docs] [issue12354] packaging.pypi.simple docs use both client and crawler name, which might be confusing

Alexis Metaireau report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jun 5 16:01:34 CEST 2012


Alexis Metaireau <alexis at notmyidea.org> added the comment:

> Alexis, you introduced the client/crawler naming after reading some book; what do you think now?

Making the distinction between a crawler and a client is probably not a 
good idea since it introduces two concepts instead of one simple one.

We have indexes and different ways to access them: What about having an 
"XMLRPCClient" and a "SimpleClient"?

In addition, having a simpler API, something like 
packaging.indexes.get_client('simple' OR 'xmlrpc') can be useful, but 
that's a different issue.

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