[Catalog-sig] How to get a list of package releases

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:15 PM 1/22/2007 +0100, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Kwiatkowski?= wrote:
>Currently we have a lot more logic in the client (easy_install) than
>in the server (PyPI). So now we have this strange situation when an
>installation client knows more about a package than the packages
>server. Shouldn't we constantly move toward removing magic from
>setuptools and porting important bits to PyPI?

I dunno.  What actual problem are you trying to solve, or what use case are 
you trying to support?  For example, why do you want to know what versions 
are available *in an automated way*?